In this video, Newsweek explores how the college application has become part of the internet age that our society is apart of today. Not only do students apply for colleges online, but now YouTube has become an essential part in the application process because certain colleges are allowing students to submit a one minute YouTube video explaining why they should be accepted to their school. The Personal Statement has now become the "Personal YouTube Video."
I have mixed feelings about this new addition to the college application process. First off, it is showing how our generation has grown creatively with technology as YouTube, a popular website, has gained educational merit as it becomes linked to the college application process. For my generation, YouTube has become a part of everyday life: from watching video clips for leisure or even seeing some YouTube clips in several of my lectures and discussions. It only makes sense that the people in charge of college applications would allow an option like this. This enables an even more in-depth look at all the college applicants for most of the videos are able to physically show the personalities, skills, and talents that many of these students possess. It's a chance at displaying creativity and uniqueness that couldn't be describes in a written personal statement. Of course, some videos are more on the funny and informal side as prospective students display their skills of solving a Rubik's Cube or dancing like a maniac just to prove that they are worth being accepted to the prestigious college of their dreams. A problem that some administrators may encounter in the application process are the numerous amounts of students who can solve a Rubik's Cube in thirty seconds or play a musical instrument well. Nevertheless, this is a new and exciting turn in our generation, for people are not only judged on their SAT or ACT scores, their AP scores, their extracurricular activities, or their awards, but they are also judged as a single human being, not college applicant #223678.
After watching this video, I find hope in the college administrators of today because now students are all given a chance to be different. A chance to show who they really are as a person and be accepted not just because of how well they scored on a test.
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