The perpetuation of legacy admissions into today’s diverse America limits student body cultural diversity and creates disparities for low-income college applicants. View the advocacy infographic linked below to take action on this issue. View Infographic Here
Read more "The Unjust Legacy of Legacy Admissions–What You Can Do."Is there an optimal way to organize college admissions so that the people who are the best match to schools are the ones to be admitted? There are many angles to approach this predicament, but most involve application components that applicants already have to complete, making solutions tangible. So we have already established that the […]
Read more "Civic Issue 3. Potential Solutions to Problematic College Admissions."Welcome to my civic issues thread, through which I am discussing the drawbacks of the college admissions process. In my last post, I introduced some issues surrounding the SAT. Because the pandemic prevented many from taking the exam, schools have widely gone test-optional during the last few college admissions cycles. These changes have been particularly […]
Read more "Civic Issue 2. But Really, How Important Are Extracurriculars?"Welcome to my civic issues thread, through which I am discussing the drawbacks of the college admissions process. Today I am going to be looking at one of the main sources of standardization–and socioeconomic divide–in secondary education. Yes, I am going to be looking at the dreaded SAT for this semester. The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude […]
Read more "Civic Issue 1. Does the SAT Actually Serve to Standardize?"The image I chose to analyze is particularly moving because it emphasizes the grave consequences of global warming. It captures an underweight polar bear struggling across a small piece of melting Arctic ice. The bear has matted fur perhaps because of having to swim to the small surface of the ice to search for food, […]
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