Issue proposal

For my issue proposal on our final papers, I've decided to write about how universities decide on accepting new students. Whether it's based on the grade point average, extracurricular activities, or SATs/ACTs scores, different universities have different ways on making their decisions. When I applied for college, my first choice was VCU. That was the first school I applied to, and I knew for sure I'd get in. I graduated high school with a 3.57 gpa, a lot of volunteer work, and many extracurricular activities. I was in several offices in different clubs, as well as did sports. My only weakness were my test scores. At the very start, I was always terrible at test taking skills. Thus, resulted in having a low SAT score. I figured since my gpa is pretty high and have a lot of points on my resume, my test scores would balance out on the decision of my acceptance. In the end, I was rejected from VCU due to my SAT score. After realizing that it was not a fair decision, I appealed the decision and finally got accepted to VCU. I feel like this is a big issue across the nation for many universities, because by accepting a student depending on their test score does not make the student a well rounded person. Universities should look at the student for that objective rather than a test score that is only based on math and english.