Michigan State to Accept Video Essays for Applications
Michigan State University will now allow students to submit a personal video as part of their admissions application, the State News reports. Admissions officials hope the videos, which can be uploaded via YouTube or via CollegeSupplement.com, will particularly allow disadvantaged students more options for expressing themselves.
Officials say that students shouldn't expect a dramatic advantage to using video and that they are just giving applicants another way to talk about themselves. "It gives students a voice," said Jim Cotter, MSU admissions director. "Some people articulate who they are very clearly in writing, but everyone's a little different."
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Great idea?
I just finished reading through a bunch of scholarship essays for the myUsearch.com scholarship and it's painfully clear that many students do not learn how to write in high school. We did not recieve one single essay without major grammatical or spelling errors and even some of the smartest students clearly needed to greatly improve their writing skills. So, I understand why Michigan State is doing this, but is this just going to lower the bar even more? I fear that it will.
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