Why Is The College Admissions Process So Hard?

Let me fill you in on an ongoing story about a kid named Gary. Gary is just your average high school senior. He enjoys playing sports and taking long walks on the beach. For that reason, he doesn’t usually spend a great amount of time on his school work, but he still has pretty average grades. Knowing that he is just an average student, with an average SAT score, he is a little worried about what college he can be accepted to, and what college he will enjoy studying at. He wants to find a college that will allow him to fulfill his career choice, but really wants to find information on each college in order to make a good choice. Knowing that on the internet he can find pretty much anything, he starts out there.

After some thinking on what kind of career he wants to pursue, he decides that he will just worry about getting his associates degree and then decide on a career. He finds a lot of suburban areas across the nation and happily realizes that there are prestigious colleges in each of them. He spends a good deal of time trying to find each college admissions application and prints off a few of them. He has thirteen colleges just to be safe, since he is after all, just average. He begins to fill one out. After about an hour of tedious work, he finally finishes filling just one out and puts it in an envelope, ready to be sent.

After finishing his first college application he starts to work on his second one. Gary gets bored with tedious work, so after finishing that one, he crashes on his couch and takes a nap. While asleep he is haunted with a nightmare where he receives both of his applications back with rejection letters and realizes that he only sent applications to two schools. He wakes up breathing hard and begins to panic until he realizes that he still has time to finish working on the rest of the applications.

He assumes that there is some kind of program that would make the process easier. He decides to keep looking for some type of help on the internet.

He returns to the college webpages and realizes that he can just type in all of his personal info right on the site. This way isn’t much easier for him. His tabbing skills aren’t all they are cracked up to be. He wishes there was just one site where he could submit all of his information once, and send that to all of the college admissions officers around the nation.

He thinks he’ll try his luck and do a search for something like that. He puts in college admissions and some other phrases. He looks through some of the sites, but nothing is to his liking. To be less general he types in Dartmouth College Admissions and Yale Admissions since his friends both applied there. He wants something more. He wonders why he can’t find some kind of tool or something that will allow him to apply to any college he wants with a few clicks of the mouse.

“Where could I do that?” he thinks. “What would I have to type in to get search results that show me how to apply to more than just one school?”

He is ready to give up. Even though he knows exactly what he needs, looking for it has become a waste of time. He has been spending many hours trying to find any information and is completely discouraged and distraught. Because of the whole ordeal. Relying only on the two applications he filled out earlier by hand, Gary gives up on the entire online application process. He sends in his two applications and hopes for the best. He is confident that at least one of those places will accept him, if not for his grades, then for his awesome personality that he hopes shows through the way he filled out the application.

Two weeks go by and he has not heard from either college. A month. Two months. He is graduating tomorrow and that day gets the letters he has been waiting for. He can not wait to find out which one he got into. He opens the letter from a state university first and reads that they regret to inform him that with his information, he has not been accepted. He shrugs it off and opens the one from his 1st choice in colleges. He is shocked to read that he has not been accepted to this one either.

That night he graduates. His mom kicks him out of the house. He becomes a skilled burger flipper at the local drive-in. Perhaps if the whole college admissions process wasn’t so hard, he could have applied to many more schools where they could have seen his good personality before he was forced into working at the drive-in.

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Author: Jason Luke
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