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Admission Essays – Why They Are Important
Every year hundreds of otherwise eligible candidates get rejected leaving both candidates and their parents wondering what went wrong. The answer to this puzzle may not at first be apparent, but a little analysis will reveal that the candidates did not pay due attention to the admissions paper.
Ask any admissions officer and you will learn that one third the time spent in evaluating an application is spent evaluating the admissions treatise. Remember high SAT scores, high grades and other qualifying activities are often achieved by hundreds, if not thousands of aspiring candidates. When evaluating candidates with similar qualifications, it is the quality of the admissions paper that makes the big difference between acceptance and rejection.
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The Science Education Belief In America
Political leaders, tech executives, and academics often claim that the U.S. is falling behind in math and science education. They cite poor test results, declining international rankings, and decreasing enrollment in the hard sciences. They urge us to improve our education system and to graduate more engineers and scientists to keep pace with countries such as India and China.
Yet a new report by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, tells a different story. The report disproves many confident pronouncements about the alleged weaknesses and failures of the U.S. education system. This data will certainly be examined by both sides in the debate over highly skilled workers and immigration. The argument by Microsoft, Google, Intel, and others is that there are not enough tech workers in the U.S.
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