Legacy Assignment

Legacy Homework

The issue at hand is average applicant’s to Cromwell have a lesser chance of being admitted, and people are complaining about that and how unfair it is. Because children of alumni have an easier chance and way more advantage of being admitted. Another issue is that Hope agrees with the whole situation. This issue is also that legacies have first priorities because of the money the parents get. Should Cromwell alumni children get special treatment @ admissions office.

It’s significant to me because, the school is being unfair and very bias towards certain students being admitted to Cromwell. This effects students who would want to attend the school but believe they’re chances of getting in is very slim, because children of alumni’s are more favorable and the admissions office spends more time on examining their applications to be admitted. This should be something to think about and use this experience as an example on how schools can have partiality.

d. Hopes’ use of statistics in the first paragraph isn’t credible to me because who is to say her friend is making up figures and not telling the whole truth? Her friend didn’t get facts from a written source it was just by word of mouth. Also, the statistics in her research, that she gives in the last paragraph are somewhat credible evidence because most alumni students do contribute to the school and still participate in activities at the schools versus non-legacy students. It’s also about your college experience if you’re going to be an alumni or not.

Hope’s position as the daughter of an alumnus undermines her credibility because that’s not enough to establish her as an authoritative figure. Now the admissions office is an authoritative source because they can tell a person all about the admissions of applicants and so forth. But as goes for her friend that does work-study in the office, she’s not a credible...