Friday, October 24, 2003
Cry me a river
Good for you if you can read this. It's the sob stories of some lads and ladies who got admitted with low SAT scores.
The reporting of these details, however, is shameful. First, parallelism. Look at the first sob story:
ONE STUDENT WITH a 4.2 GPA lived in a one-bedroom apartment with a family of eight, and did homework in the bathroom to concentrate. Immigrated in middle school without basic English skills.
Nor did the people who wrote these summaries have a good grasp of basic English skills, either. The first sentence is a sentence. Subject, predicate, etc. The second sentence is not a sentence, but more of a bulleted point. It gradually gets worse and worse, until the end, where:
STUDENT BEGAN MENTORING program for girls, acted as peer advisor at school.
This is written not in sentence form but in article headline form (i.e. drop linking verbs, conjunctions). Really, people, get a grip on English.
Also included is most students' GPA. Some have GPAs above 4.0, which is clearly a weighted GPA. But some have GPAs below 4.0, yet the article doesn't say whether these are weighted or not. (It makes one hell of a difference, you know) Shoddy work, all around.
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