Fulbright's Argumentative Essay

I think Fulbright wants to avoid any false negative. Hugh did not pass the predictor admissions test how he should have, so this situation would not be a false positive. I’m sure they would want to avoid false positives as well though. This situation is a false negative because Hugh seems to be a good candidate that they should not have rejected. He would have most likely done well in the medical school, despite his scores. Fulbright would want to avoid accepting a false positive applicant, over a false negative person. Although, in most situations it is hard to tell who are the false positive and false negative people. I believe it would be a good idea to admit students on a conditional basis like Hugh wants. This way they wont have false positives stuck in their program. …show more content…
I believe the application process is based off only certain aspects of judgment. I think that Fulbright was basing there choices off of grade point average and admissions test scores, like most other university’s do. Colleges receive so many applications that they often do not look into details about the specific person. For example, how Hugh improved significantly and only did bad his freshman year, which is why his grade point average was not higher. I think instead of seeing that he had improved, they only saw his overall score. I believe Fulbright thinks Hugh could still be successful in medical school, but there were other candidates who had better grade point averages or test scores than him. I think most university’s have a system and accept the highest qualifying candidates first and then go through the rest, depending on how many people they need to