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Has PSUC become a better campus since rejecting more applicants?
Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: Opinion
Originally published: 11/30/07 at 4:57 PM EST
Last update: 11/30/07 at 4:57 PM EST
Campus image improving by being more selective
By Mike O'Keefe
Staff Writer
Plattsburgh State is a good school.
Although it may get a little cold here in the North Country, and the mall uptown is boring, the campus and surrounding area is actually quite beautiful.
The university itself has been adequately prepared to meet the student body's needs for some time now.
No matter what students say, the school that they have chosen to attend should be able to successfully educate the students in their chosen field with dignity.
Recently, the school has made their admissions requirements a little harder in hopes to generate a peaceful, more civil student population. This new wave of students would (hopefully) raise the caliber of students that want to go here and eventually graduate from here.
It is pretty easy to see that lowering the acceptance rate will bring in better students - weeding out the bad seeds, if you will. "Smarter" students - those who rarely have run-ins with the law, get decent grades, and make the significantly better decisions in life - will take the place of those questionable, "bad" students.
The students that are accepted at PSUC are accepted for many reasons. Academics, athletics and various other social activities all combine to make a well balanced college student. The admissions office looks at all these and more when accepting students into this institution. Students with the best and most balanced profiles when applying to college will be accepted before the student with a concentration in certain areas - such as the student that is looking for an athletic scholarship with mediocre grades.
When the admissions department decides to lower the acceptance rate, it means a lot of things. First of all, it indicates that the budget needs to be sending money elsewhere on campus, and that money that would normally be sent towards new students will be used for the benefit of actual students here at PSUC, as well as concentrating more money on the incoming freshman.
By Mike O'Keefe
Staff Writer
Plattsburgh State is a good school.
Although it may get a little cold here in the North Country, and the mall uptown is boring, the campus and surrounding area is actually quite beautiful.
The university itself has been adequately prepared to meet the student body's needs for some time now.
No matter what students say, the school that they have chosen to attend should be able to successfully educate the students in their chosen field with dignity.
Recently, the school has made their admissions requirements a little harder in hopes to generate a peaceful, more civil student population. This new wave of students would (hopefully) raise the caliber of students that want to go here and eventually graduate from here.
It is pretty easy to see that lowering the acceptance rate will bring in better students - weeding out the bad seeds, if you will. "Smarter" students - those who rarely have run-ins with the law, get decent grades, and make the significantly better decisions in life - will take the place of those questionable, "bad" students.
The students that are accepted at PSUC are accepted for many reasons. Academics, athletics and various other social activities all combine to make a well balanced college student. The admissions office looks at all these and more when accepting students into this institution. Students with the best and most balanced profiles when applying to college will be accepted before the student with a concentration in certain areas - such as the student that is looking for an athletic scholarship with mediocre grades.
When the admissions department decides to lower the acceptance rate, it means a lot of things. First of all, it indicates that the budget needs to be sending money elsewhere on campus, and that money that would normally be sent towards new students will be used for the benefit of actual students here at PSUC, as well as concentrating more money on the incoming freshman.
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