Non Binding College Admissions Essay

There has been immense amounts of debate recently on whether or not the college admission process is a fair. Many people have offered solutions on trying to reduce the amount of stress high school students are feeling with the admission process. Dr. Michelle Hernandez has a possible solution that focuses more on educating students and not gaming admissions. This solution comprises different ways to apply to college, eliminating non-binding admissions, and eliminating major tests like ACT and SAT. Although these would mark big changes it could be an answer to high school burnout, slanted admissions, and bringing the attention back on educating the students. A major problem Dr. Hernandez pointed out in her article was the major overflow of applicants colleges receive. Smaller colleges typically only have room for a little more than a 1,000 students each academic year. When over 30,000 students are applying to these schools it creates an extremely small number of admitted students. This alone is why many students are feeling stressed out. Dr. Hernandez offers a solution to this problem by adopting a match system similar to the one used in medical school admissions. Many students apply to over 20 schools. If a student got accepted into just 10 of those schools nine kids would be wait listed just because of that one student.
The non-binding early action option allows for students to still apply to other colleges even though they have been accepted. Students that participate in the non-binding option make the regular admissions process much more competitive and harder to get into. Getting rid of the non-binding option would ensure that students do not apply to other universities after they have already been accepted to one. This would lower the amount of students applying and would again allow for the accepted admission rates to go