Write out personal and family history. Share activities and leadership positions. Craft and proofread essays. Pay a fee, if applicable. Repeat. Those are the traditional steps required for high school students applying to colleges. After a grueling application process that can span hours to days, students then wait weeks or even months to find out if they were admitted. But now — as some colleges watch their enrollments fall and more high schoolers question the worth of a degree — a growing number of schools are taking a more lax approach to admissions. In fact, they’re scrapping the application process altogether for some students through direct admissions: a process that allows schools to proactively offer admission to students who meet certain academic or locational criteria.
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Each school that participates in the Common Application or the Coalition has the ability to request supplemental essays ranging from a short answer (150 words) to a longer essay (500 words, or in some cases no limit). The most common supplemental essay questions are the "Why school?" and "Why academic interest(s)?" This essay is a chance for you to make the match between your interests and talents and the school's offerings. Many admissions professionals say that they read the "Why school?" essay first. They want to see if you as an applicant truly know why you want to attend the school other than its excellent reputation, outstanding location, or world-renowned faculty. So how do you do this? https://lnkd.in/eqETdwpH
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In the form of an essay, I would like to share my thoughts on the characteristics of the concretized myth of white supremacy and whiteness. It is vital to disrupt the framing and parameters of whiteness, as established by the status quo, within and outside education. https://lnkd.in/ggPdYFhX
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