Some colleges and universities allow students to declare their majors only after their sophomore year. Some universities make students declare their major in the first year. Which policy do you think is better and why?
A statistic, published by Educational Advisory Board, a research and consulting firm based in Washington D.C., points out that allowing students to declare their majors only after their sophomore year is a better policy for higher education. The study presented that end result by exploring the connection between student’s final declaration and providing scientific base on how it affected their time to degree and graduation rates. Plus, whilst the majority of people prone to alter their minds along with time, going in undecided can be a good strategy to take control of your academic destiny.
To prove the first notion that later major declaration benefits students life planing, for example, students in a recent class at Western Kentucky University had higher four-year graduation rates when they waited two years before declaring a major. A psychology research can explain that situation: the act of major switching itself is a positive indicator of committed engagement. 83.4% of students who declared their final major later graduated on time, comparing to 72.8% of students who declared and did not change their major. After all, being undecided in college allows the students to explore their interest to find the major that truly fits. One can take classes, talk to students and professors, and join clubs to get a feel for all the options.
Secondly, a survey conducted by the authority shows that up to 70% of the students are fairly like to change their major after college exploration. No matter how certain the students are now, their mind may change; especially once they arrive at college and are exposed to its seemingly endless array of course offerings. As the saying goes: college is a time to explore your interest. All experts agree that it is okay that there are students who have their lives planned out from the time they are in middle school, yet the majority of students need a little more time than high school to figure our their academic interest and their professional focus.
Notwithstanding that declaring a major before admission definitely granted the applicant a more attractive figure to the colleges both for acceptance and lucrative financial aid, such strategy only limited to be relatively helpful for the applicants who showcase an early on firm interest in entering some professional programs demanding major prerequisite classes.
In summary, if one cannot answer “yes” to questions of “ do you know what the requirements are for your prospective major? ” and “ have you researched the career options that are available to students who are majoring in this field? “ , it is like best to enter to the later-major-declaration policy university.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 265, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, second, secondly, so, after all, for example, in summary, of course, you know
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2300.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 438.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25114155251 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89251517 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563926940639 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 723.6 618.680645161 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 9.59856630824 21% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.7695673985 48.9658058833 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.75 100.406767564 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.375 20.6045352989 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.479533800525 0.236089414692 203% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156569354365 0.076458572812 205% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103502839314 0.0737576698707 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249032064632 0.150856017488 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109693795189 0.0645574589148 170% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 11.7677419355 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 58.1214874552 61% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.01818996416 115% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 86.8835125448 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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