What a new study on college essays and family income really means:
He continues: “This paper tells us absolutely nothing about how those tendencies correlate with admissions decisions.”
Admissions officers care much more about grades, course rigor and test scores than they do about essays. A science or math student with a strong record and high scores is unlikely to be rejected because they write a weak essay, says Conley. And a top-notch essay submitted by a weak student is seen as a red flag. “A great essay is not going to mean a school will take somebody who doesn’t measure up academically in performance,” he says, “nor the reverse.
The authors used software to analyze essays written by nearly 60,000 applicants to the University of California system in 2016. They turned words and phrases into numbers, identifying syntax, word and punctuation choices and correlating those with reported household income. They also looked at essay topics. Lower income students tended to write more about family relationships and school challenges like time management.
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