Sunday, December 4, 2011

11. Ask and answer the one important question that a university won't ask you, but you wish they would.

One question I feel that every college should ask all applicants is if they had the chance to change one thing about their high school career what it would be. Such an important question as this would give students the chance to explain their reason for certain desicions or mistakes they now regret and what they would do in order to change it. Maybe then colleges would take the time and look at their applicants in a different way then they would have done before. For example, a student who had bad grades in their freshman year but showed improvement throughout the rest of their high school career could write about their realization and their plans to keeping it up. This could possibly put them in the range that someone with good grades would be. It would give more students the opportunity to to attend the college they applied to. Colleges often ask questions that apply to outside life in the community for example, however I believe they should ask more questions related to academic life as well in order to get a more clear observation of the student they will, in the end, either accept of deny.

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