What would you do if you and your friend applied to the same college and only he got accepted, even though you have higher grades? And it just happens to be that your friend’s father or mother went to that college. Come to find out that he eventually ends up dropping out. You would be mad wouldn’t you? Well this is called legacy admissions. This topic has been very controversial over the past few years.
In “The dirty little secrets of college admissions” Roberto Rodriguez states that legacies are taking money from the people who actually need it. Rodriguez says that these people are Blacks and Latinos. The way that he justifies this is because the legacies are getting scholarships that could be more useful to the poor. It says that the poor are being “squeezed” out of college because they have no way to pay for it.
Also in the Rodriguez’s article it states that “special admits” have always been a staple of private universities and colleges. And in “When Legacies are a college’s lifeblood” Elizabeth F. Farrell mentions some schools that use legacy admissions, and most of them are private universities. Farrell also has some data that says at Calvin College of the four thousand one hundred and ninety students admitted; forty percent of them were legacies. And of the ninety-four percent that were excepted ninety-six percent of those were legacies.
Some people think that legacies are a good thing, but there are also people who believe that they are very harmful to kids too. It is can be a big part of college admissions too. I believe that it will end up being that students will have to know someone that went to the college that they want to go to in order to get in. I also believe that this will just make kids feel like they will always be handed things in life.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Legacy admissions Annoted biblography #2
Farrell, Elizabeth F. “When Legacies are a College’s Life Blood.” Chronicle of Higher Education 23 February 2009
This article is crediable. Elizabeth Farrell has written a few articles on the topic of legacies, and legacy admissions.
This article is crediable. Elizabeth Farrell has written a few articles on the topic of legacies, and legacy admissions.
Legacy admissions Annoted biblography #1
Rodriguez, Roberto “The Dirty Little Secret of College Admissions” Black Issues in Higher Education 13 (1996): 12 ProQuest. Tompkins Cortland Community College Library, Dryden, NY. 23 February 2009
This article is somewhat credible. The people that are mentioned in this article are all from colleges. Some are administrators. They just want to make it seem like their school doesn't believe in legacy admissions.
This article is somewhat credible. The people that are mentioned in this article are all from colleges. Some are administrators. They just want to make it seem like their school doesn't believe in legacy admissions.
Video for Legacy Admissions
This video is of George Leef. He is talking about how harmful legacy admission can be. He says that it should not exist.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Essay #1 Rough draft
The issue of same-sex versus mixed-sex schooling is a topic that is on the minds of few people. Some people believe that it is beneficial to both sexes that they are though in an environment that will not only get an education but also learn how to act in social settings. And on the other hand some people believe that this will just hinder their education. They believe that if they don’t have the distraction of the opposite sex in their classrooms then they will learn and remember things more effectively.
In “Single-sex schooling: Is it simply a ‘class act’,” the authors, Georgina Tsolidis and Ian R. Dobson, stated that if there were more same-sex schools for boys then they would have a higher intelligence. It also states that same-sex schooling has been very productive with girls. In the article “Parents views on mixed and single-sex secondary schools,” by Anne West and Jan Hunter, it states that some parents would have a positive reaction to a same-sex school.
Some of the areas that they agreed on were that the girls that have participated in same-sex schooling have had better test results. They also see same-sex schooling as a way for boys to be more concentrated on their school work instead of the girls. Also both articles believe that if there were more all boy schools then it would be more beneficial.
Although they agreed on some points, they didn’t agree on all. They disagree with same-sex schools because of the underfunding that the same-sex schools have. They say that it would be better to just stay in mixed schools. Some of the parents in the second article feel that a mixed school would make the girls feel like they couldn’t do as much as the boys.
In conclusion, I believe that it would be very important for people to choose whether they wanted to send their child to a mixed or same-sex school. The only problem is that there aren’t many same-sex schools around. Finally you also have to pay tuition for a same-sex school, so that is a very big decision for people.
In “Single-sex schooling: Is it simply a ‘class act’,” the authors, Georgina Tsolidis and Ian R. Dobson, stated that if there were more same-sex schools for boys then they would have a higher intelligence. It also states that same-sex schooling has been very productive with girls. In the article “Parents views on mixed and single-sex secondary schools,” by Anne West and Jan Hunter, it states that some parents would have a positive reaction to a same-sex school.
Some of the areas that they agreed on were that the girls that have participated in same-sex schooling have had better test results. They also see same-sex schooling as a way for boys to be more concentrated on their school work instead of the girls. Also both articles believe that if there were more all boy schools then it would be more beneficial.
Although they agreed on some points, they didn’t agree on all. They disagree with same-sex schools because of the underfunding that the same-sex schools have. They say that it would be better to just stay in mixed schools. Some of the parents in the second article feel that a mixed school would make the girls feel like they couldn’t do as much as the boys.
In conclusion, I believe that it would be very important for people to choose whether they wanted to send their child to a mixed or same-sex school. The only problem is that there aren’t many same-sex schools around. Finally you also have to pay tuition for a same-sex school, so that is a very big decision for people.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Response to reading chapter 2
We will learn in this chapter how to get all of the information out of a passage that the author wants you to get out of it. We will learn the different types of writing too. The chapter will also tell us how to identify how to write these essays. Also the chapter will teach us how to write critques and what goes into a critques.
When I finished reading I found that in this chapter I was partly right in my expectations. It told us the different ways that authors use writing to get their point across. It also told us how to get the whole of what the author wants you to get out of the passage. The thing that we didn't learn that i thought we were going to was how to write a critque. It will also didn't tell us how to write a critique.
When I finished reading I found that in this chapter I was partly right in my expectations. It told us the different ways that authors use writing to get their point across. It also told us how to get the whole of what the author wants you to get out of the passage. The thing that we didn't learn that i thought we were going to was how to write a critque. It will also didn't tell us how to write a critique.
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