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VOICE OF .YOU'TH
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I^now this topic has been written on before, but since it is such a'large field, I amgouife to write I on it again. / It is becoming iffcreasingly difficult to gain admission, to colleges j these days and this is a very serious problem. The pcrcentage/.of admissions is getting smaller and-.small> cr every year. This is not the fault «i of the college or anyone else. There are just more students applying for -admission than the colleges can . house. There aren't enough labs, dorms, teachers, lor professors. In die last year all major colleges . ha«l required entrance exams and these gren’t so easy. Because the colleges can’t house all the applicants, just the top students with the top grades gain admission to college. . 'jV
I recently bad an interview with. die Dean of Admission at a Virgin• ia college, puring the interview, ' I learned that the a p p 1 i c a n t’s school record was most important, (but the entrance1 exam was also important. This means that the C student usually doesn’t gift to col' *«««• ' . - '• =1 _ ■: __ . •
lit S- a necessity for a student who is planning to go to college to . pick (he required subjects, and get the best grades possible. This concerns both teenager and parent because both are responsible for good grades in high school. ^ . A . Vi
This may sound drastic, but it’s a drastic situation. -V. i , .. A Teenager
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