For decades, U.S. colleges and universities have been giving an advantage to the children and relatives of their alumni -- otherwise known as “legacy students.” But today, the vast majority of college students are against this practice. The concept of legacy admissions has been around since the 1920s. And it’s common practice at many of
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The good news: by senior year, many teens ARE good writers who can crank out a thoughtful essay that answers the prompt. The bad news: a majority of the rough drafts I see cross my desk (as a tutor) are really NOT submission ready. Not even close. While I don't pretend to speak on behalf of admissions officers here, my inner English teacher is cringing while reading my students' work, the drafts that are supposed to not only gain admission for them but should ideally also win scholarships and/or admission to honors programs (and the like). What's worse is that, at least in my area, my students are telling me three things: 1. My English teacher doesn't talk about admissions essays. We are on our own.2. Yeah, we wrote essays for school, but there was only one short comment on it. My teacher says that (he/she) doesn't want to grade or judge my life.3. I'm in an (AP/IB/honors) English class, so my teacher says we don't need help writing our essays. We are already good writers. Here's my struggle. With all due respect to hardworking, overloaded, fantastic teachers of high school English, most of whom have limited freedom in their curriculums... this is arguably the most important essay that students will ever write. Regardless of what they "should" be able to do by now (and the fact that it's not our job to be students' personal editors), this essay merits our attention. It's a special genre that most teens need help completing, and more importantly, this essay is an equality issue. Many students won't get help at all, or the right kind of help, to do it. So, what reasonable steps can English teachers take, and why? 1. Encourage out-of-the-box thinking. One of my biggest pet peeves is that so many essays sound the same. One year, I swore that if I read ONE MORE essay about why a volleyball or football coach was inspiring, I was going to quit tutoring forever. Even when students have to answer a very specific prompt, they need to EITHER write unique content, have a unique answer, or put a unique spin on a common answer. Instead of telling me why your football coach is so wonderful, how about telling us that your football coach actually taught you more about academics than sports? (Just an example.) Preach uniqueness to students. The readers need to see what is different and interesting about the applicant, or there will be nothing memorable about the essay. 2. Talk about blending genres. Yes, this is (usually) an essay, but how about a narrative, storytelling hook? What about mixing informative and persuasive? With some exceptions, a lot of colleges want to read essays with anecdotes, that flow more like a TED talk than a five-paragraph snooze fest. They want to be drawn into the story of who you are and see for themselves why you should be admitted. Bending genre is the new name of the essay game. 3. Discuss how to sell yourself appropriately. Too much self-talk can sound arrogant, especially since admissions officers love honesty and humility... but not enough of it means that the essay may not reveal why the student is acceptance-worthy. Even if you don't have time for full lessons on tone and word choice, perhaps mention to these well-intentioned students that this IS a spectrum that they'll want to fall in the middle of. 4. Preach the RIGHT revision strategies. Besides editing those essays to be grammatically PERFECT (obviously), I want students to actually revise their drafts. But believe it or not, their biggest struggle isn't usually a lack of revision skills: it's knowing which friends and family members' feedback to listen to. Peers may or may not know what they're talking about, and parents sometimes have an outdated (sorry) vision of what this essay is supposed to be. (I once had a parent get angry with me because he was concerned that his son's essay structure wasn't traditional enough.) Have an appropriate conversation with students, based on their skill level, about how to revise and who to ask for help. (You do NOT have to volunteer to be their reader; discuss who else is a good idea to ask!) 5. Ask if their draft makes a point. This is a fun one. A lot of essays answer the prompted question... but do nothing else. No real thesis statement, no sneaky subplot, no revelation of their personality or uniqueness (see #1). Yes, students need to answer the question, but sometimes they answer it SO directly that the essay feels clinically impersonal and neutral. The question I like to ask is: "If you forgot to put your name on this, would I be able to tell it's yours, or would it sound like everyone else's?" If the latter, then they need to weave themselves in more somehow. 6. Check their organization. We all know that some students are, um, "less organized" than others. Give them a hand by passing out this free graphic organizer to help them get their prompts, deadlines, word counts, and other details in order.
While every college sets its own schedule, many use similar application and admissions timelines. Here’s a look at college deadlines students needs to know.
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Kristina Dooley, president of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, discusses the impact of recommendation letters on college applications.
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When it came to applying to schools, I was lazy to say the least. I applied for only two – University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University. U of I was the goal, and Northern was the safety, even though I really didn’t want to go there. I didn’t look into any other schools, knowing that I would get into Northern at the very least. In hindsight, my lack of urgency scares me as choosing a college really is a life defining decision. I know a lot of seniors are starting to stress about getting into and wondering how to…
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How many times does "GPA" (grade point average) come up in conversations you have with either your students or their families? If you're like me, you hear it on a daily basis. Is my GPA high-enough to get into college? Will a C+ in this AP class ruin my GPA? Shouldn't I take a standard-level class and get an A versus an honors level class and get a B since it will make my GPA higher? It can leave you wondering if the GPA is the be-all, end-all for students and college admissions. A recent article in USA Today looked into this issue, and finds what college admissions offices have been telling us for years--that for many schools, the GPA in-and-of itself is not a key factor. Rather, it is the grades students receive in their classes and the rigor and challenge of the classes themselves about which colleges are really concerned. Below is the list of factors in rank order from the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC): source: www.nacacnet.org GPA is not listed. When I share this with parents and students, they often go into shock. Why is this? Every school and/or school system computes GPA's in different ways. When I was in high-school, in my district everything was factored in except for PE classes, and certain courses deemed more rigorous were given weights. Other school systems weight nothing, regardless of the level of the class, while others will assign a +.5 weight to an honors class when someone else assigns the same level of class a +1.0 weight and another a +2.0 weight. Some use 5.0 versus a 4.0 scale. There is no real consistency from one school system to the next, and as college admissions offices receive applications from all over the United States and the world, trying to compare applicants by their GPAs is like comparing apples to oranges. Thus, many colleges will recompute GPA's according to their own formulas to level the playing field for the students in their applicant pool, like the University of Florida in the USA Today article. Some will take out all weights. Some will only factor in "core" classes to include math, science, English, social-studies, and world language. Others will not do any computations at all, but rather evaluate the transcript holistically, looking at the level of classes a student took and the grades they received in those classes. Check out this video from the Office of Admissions at Virginia Polytechnic University (Virginia Tech): Ixnay on the GPA talk! from Virginia Tech Undergrad Admiss on Vimeo. If this is the case, why deal with GPA's at all? They can be great tools in-house. We use Naviance in our school system, and one benefit is that it allows students to compare their GPA's with the GPA's of past-students (no identifying information is given) who applied to a specific college or university. Because the data is restricted to one school, this is a like-to-like comparison using the same GPA computation. Thus, it can give a student a realistic idea of how they might stack up based on past year's admission data for their school. However, even this needs a word of caution, as the rigor of the classes may not always be reflected within this one data point. Thus, a student can have a really high GPA but not necessarily be competitive depending on their class choices, or a student from your school can have a slightly lower GPA than the average for a particular college but still be a strong candidate because of the rigorous classes they took. Additionally, the GPA can be a good common reference point when talking to students and families in general about post-secondary goals within your own school population. It is an understood measurement within your community to begin discussions about classes and college goals. Still, the best advice for students and families may be to focus a little bit less on the GPA, take the most challenging and rigorous courses you can manage successfully within the context of your entire life, and strive to get A's and B's in all your classes. That, in and of itself, is the best formula for the beginnings of a strong college admissions profile.
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