University and college admissions

decided to interview Sabrina Tapps-Fee, a Senior Admission Counselor and Coordinator of the Tour Guide program for the University of Iowa. I decided to interview Sabrina, because admissions is an area of higher education that really interests me. I knew Sabrina had a long history working in admissions and I was interested in learning more about her experiences. To begin Sabrina provided me with background information on what led her to being an admission counselor. Similar to myself, she never…

about which college they are going to enroll and what university they want to attend. But the battle towards higher education in the minds of these young individuals are often laced with unpreparedness. Often, when deciding to enter the process of college admissions, students neglect life after college. Ignoring career life after studying in college, especially when choosing a college, is a mistake, cites the Washington Post. Students often forget or neglect that there is life after college.…

the Medical School of the University of California at Davis established a racial quota, according to the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1999). The university’s admissions office was run under two separate programs: “the regular admissions program and the special admissions program.” Minority students were admitted through the special admissions program and had different requirements to fulfill than the students admitted through the regular admissions program (1999). Through…

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private medical school located in Yakima, Washington. Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine was founded in 2005 and is a non-profit university. Osteopathic training is used in order to train the future physicians that will treat the communities in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Becoming a part of the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences student body begins…

“bridging the gap” between citizens and the federal government. Loss (2012) eloquently states, higher education was infused with diversity, which extends beyond admissions into the core of various disciplines and student life. “Diversity effectively conveyed the organizational, intellectual, and human complexity of the contemporary university and the society it served (Loss, 2012, p. 229). Serving faculty, staff and students from varying populations (origin, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic…

Redundancy, Discrimination, and Corruption in the Multibillion-Dollar Business of College Admissions Testing. My reason for choosing this paper is the way she presents her argument because she provides a personal reason why she is writing about the subject of college admissions testing and writes the paper very technically which is the way I prefer to think. Her goal for this paper is to show colleges that college admission testing puts extra stress on students and lowering the stakes will…

Should Colleges Make the SAT’s and ACT’s Optional? Forty students sat diligently at desks in the classroom with worn out pencils and erasers. They were constantly preparing for the standardized test they were about to receive. The students in the front row had prepared throughout the summer; the artist in the back was drawing on a spare sheet of paper to calm her nerves, and I was in the middle of the room humming a Clarinet Concerto. I knew a better score was imperative towards getting…

As many high school upperclassmen begin the search for colleges, one of the biggest things a student will look at is whether or not they are up to par with the admissions requirements. Many factors play into these requirements such as grade point average (GPA), extracurricular activities, community involvement, maybe even an essay, however, the most daunting requirements for these students is the section that reads “Test Scores.” Standardized test scores are used to weed out applicants and scare…

and minority students at major disadvantages and have resulted in a lack of diversity in universities in the UNC system (Soares). They think that a student’s grade point average will give admissions counselors a better idea of the students abilities. In a conversation between Soares and NC Policy Watch, NC Policy Watch asked Soares if the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship university serving poor and rich students equally, Soares’ reply was “No.…

When students think about applying to college the first thing that comes to mind is the SAT; and how they are going to prepare. Many question if there should be alternatives for standardized testing that could outweigh the benefits of the SAT? Right now this is a controversial problem it affect people all over the country when they are applying to a colleges of there choice. This issue is relevant because today there are schools that are putting aside the SAT and using other alternatives to…