THIS

they earn themselevs

Take me for example, I come from a rather well off family to the point I can pay all 4 years tuition and come out debt free. But when I'm asked about a struggle I had in life I typically write about my own bout with depression and my fight against it without medication and how that affected my life academically and personally

Tbh yugure might not even support the system

Dont attack him for it

I'm not.

yu what?

Someone who faces struggles wants the opportunity to earn their keep, not be handed it

So, under Tim's system, your depression problems would entitle you to aid or special consideration that someone without those struggles would not receive?

Again, no

that which is given has no value... for those who keep forgetting

So, you don't get anything?

Book you seem to be missing a step or two here which could be my fault for not explaining correctly

You're judged on the same plane as someone without the problems you face?

Let's take college admissions again. Now when people are admitted to college, their GPA and ACT/SAT scores hold the most weight in an application process AKA their achievements in high school

Think of it like this, A student from a poor public school would not have the same opportunity's as a someone from a rich private school. This means that your merit in your school and not your merit compared to rich child should be used.

However many colleges (including my own) allow for a personal statement to add a human factor to the application, to explain a struggle in your life that could have caused your achievements

That sounds to me like lowering the bar for people

special people

While the personal statement does not hold as much weight as the ACT and GPA, it helps in a decision making process

So then your okay with not applying equal opportunity to a situation?

If someone accepted you, over someone with better test scores, because of your depression struggles, did you receive special consideration?

Lowering the bar is giving the assumption that a group of people all face the same problem and need Pity for ir

Someone born poor should not have the same opportunity's as someone born rich? Doesnt sound very merit based.

If anything I wouldent be accepted because of my GPA

Since the individual did not achieve their keep in life themselves

My GPA was a 2.3, yet my ACT was a 28

The personal statement helped them understand maybe my GPA was skewed because of my bout with depression

No, @Yugure that is a fatally flawed assumption. You can lower the bar on any basis, even an individual one.

Lowering the bar is just that, lowering the bar

it says NOTHNG about the reasons why you're lowering it

simply that you're lowering it

so anything extra is baggage in your mind

@Yugure grades are nothing

sadly grades nowadays do not separate those who learn and those who memorize

Grades are the academic benchmark of success Kali

And your right, but they are used nontheless

there is no meriotacratic metric to determine a lot of academic achievement not every student in america goes to the same high school one schools 2.5 is a lot more difficult then another schools

It's true, but grades would say a lot more if I had more trust in the American educations system.

We may hate the rings, but to reach our goals we need to jump through tjem

That is why things like SAT and GRE exist