Colleges That Rejected Me

For many students, stress seems to walk hand in hand with college applications; From writing essays to taking various standardized tests, attempting to get into college takes hard work, and sometimes it can all come crashing down when the infamous rejection letter arrives in the mail. After being turned down from the colleges of her dreams, Suzy Lee Weiss wrote the article “To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me” which describes how colleges lie about their expectations of applicants. The author writes that colleges expect much more than they actually say they are looking for, and that acceptance is biased towards certain people or qualities. The arguments made by this author tend to lack proper supporting evidence and also include multiple logical fallacies which ultimately make her case against college admissions ineffective.
The first claim the author makes is that colleges lie by telling applicants to “just be yourself” which falsely represents what the college is truly looking for in students. This statement could have been helpful to her argument had there been any trace of supporting evidence in the form of a fact or citation. Unfortunately for the author, there is no indication of where this information came from or what colleges, if any, tell students to simply be themselves when applying. …show more content…
She writes, “My parents gave up on parenting me… my parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies”. By writing about the author’s lack of proper parenting throughout her life, it was most likely intended to evoke emotions from the reader, namely pity or sympathy. These lines don’t directly relate to the author’s topic of how colleges lie about their expectations because a college doesn’t have any control over a student’s family life or upbringing. Using emotions or pathos to argue a point is not sound reasoning and it makes the another one of this author’s reasons