Many of us don’t realize that whatever we do now can have an impact on our future. Say you become valedictorian of your middle school and elementary do you not think that high schools and colleges will not take that into consideration later on? A pupil maintains a 4.0 average his/her entire career in school that average will propel the student to be accepted into many more school compared to someone who has an average that goes from 3.5 to 2.5 and then goes back to 3.5. Schools look at everything a student does before accepting them. Sure usually senior year counts the most but if administrators look at the junior year and see a 3.0 compared to the 4.0 a student was receiving then the people who run the admissions know that this student is not all they seem to be.
So what happens when a student gets to college? How do they start applying? How do they look into schools? The article I read is about college waiting lists. Many students have found out by now which schools they have been accepted to. Then there are the students that still don’t know what school they are going to. All of the colleges have extremely long lists. These lists are so long that the probability of a student getting in who is on the list is almost slim to impossible. Over the years the numbers of students on waiting lists has increased. This may be due to the fact that students are either selecting too many colleges that they are not interested in to make sure they at least get into a college. The article recommends that the students who are on waiting list who really want to go to that particular school should respond quickly to the waiting list. It advises the student to not keep emailing the administrator because it can easily get them rejected faster. Those who do not wish to go to that school should send a rejection letter and decline properly so other students who want to get in have a better chance.
This article is mostly informative as so are the rest of New York Times articles. This is due to the fact that New York Times is a type of newspaper that runs on facts. They try to be as credible as possible by being subtle about the opinion. New york times is a newspaper that just tries to keep anyone who is reading the article updated about world issues. If and when New york times start to have a strong opinion on subject matters not many people would want to read it because the article would be bias. My opinion of the article is that college applications are hard. They are especially harder when there thousands of kids applying and the probability of a student getting in is small. Even in waiting lists the probability of a student getting accepted off of that is even slimmer. Just to give you some helpful facts, Yale’s waiting list is 1,001 people, so long is the list that Yale has decided to defer their acceptances. Duke has had a record of holding the most kids on a waiting list with the number of 3,336. The students who were accepted that year from the waiting list was 60 were accepted. Being realistic is key into getting into a college.
Lastly I believe that everything matters. If anyone wants to get into college they have to be ready for challenges. This includes, patience, hard work, time management and perseverance. Students have to be diligent in everything they do. They should be able to handle themselves in competing numbers. This means they should start preparing all the way from elementary to obtain that perfect average or at least close to it.
Link to the article: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/what-to-do-while-on-a-college-wait-list/?hp#
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