Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Although the prospect of universities requiring students to only take courses specific to the field they are interested in studying could be more cost-efficient, - shortening undergraduate school time and financial costs - the module does not adhere to our culture, a whole systematic schooling change would need to occur, and ultimately, the clashing of a new policy and contradicting culture could only prolong student’s time in undergrad. The process of high school and the fact that college is culturally seen as a coming-of-age period for young adults, supports a more versatile education in college. Assuming college students know the occupation they want to pursue for their whole life at the age of 18 is at dissonance with such a cultural understanding.
High school now demands an excessive range of efforts and interests from our youth. To even be a competitive applicant for not only college admission but also, scholarship - which is needed for most students because of the insane cost of college - a high schooler has to have an excellent GPA, SAT score, and commitment to a variety of extra-curricular activities. Juggling all these different realms leaves little time for exploration of interests or even deep introspection for personal desires. Expecting a high schooler to know their career path by the time they are entering college is asking them to make a commitment with the bare-minimum knowledge, if that, of a variety subjects and little to no experience in those fields. Requiring students to commit to a single career path is not allowing high schoolers to make the most informed decision.
Without a whole shift in the structure of high school and requirements for college, a high schooler will most likely not have the capacity to successfully make a thoroughly explored decision about their future. If the demands for students to get straight A’s or have the perfect application for college were lessened, students might have time and capacity to explore diverse careers in high school. Until those pressures are lessened it would be presumptuous to expect a high schooler to know which career path they desire at 18 years old.
Along these lines, college is seen as the time to “find yourself”. If a student is in the process of becoming who they are meant to be, their career aspirations most likely would change along the way. With this kind of turbulence, the undergrad experience could end up being not so efficient; students might need to change their field of interest a handful of times. Requiring students to take general, entry level courses intends to create room for exploration of diverse fields and yet, even this buffer, students are prone to changing fields at least once in the course of four years. Unless the culture surrounding youth, independence, and identity is accelerated to the point where high schoolers “know themselves” and experience the maturity of a full grown adult, expecting students to know their desired field of study feels fruitless.
In recognition of cultural and policy compatibility, sustaining a college education with mandated multifaceted courses is most beneficial to students. The system works as it does because of exterior factors like high school education and the maturation process of 18-22 year olds. Unless these factors were to change, the policy of only requiring students to take course of interest, would ultimately, be less successful than the current system.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, as to, at least, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2935.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 558.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25985663082 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86024933743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00259509597 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 907.2 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.2518596814 60.3974514979 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.473684211 118.986275619 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3684210526 23.4991977007 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.26315789474 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184238110348 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0635179679145 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0513782946386 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117672980243 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274461652847 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.0 14.1392134831 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.82 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.