We used this inspect for discussion yesterday in my Ethics class. Very fun! Give it a try:
Brigham Young University has admitted 6,786 freshmen for the fall semester out of a total 9,958 applicants. Of the be day students. 6% are multi-cultural. 26 percent were from the Far East. 14 percent from South America. 14 percent from Canada. 13 percent from Europe. 12 percent from Central America and Mexico. 7 percent from the lay East and 7 percent from Eastern Europe and Russia. The average high school GPA is 3.78 and the add up ACT score is 27.8. Most of them are admitted according to the following criteria:
Many of those not admitted are seminary graduates with positive ecclesiastical support and ACT scores of 24 or GPAs of 3.3.
Every year however there is a very interesting assort of applications that tests the simplicity of the criteria used to admit or evaluate most applicants. Below is a sampling of such applications. anticipate that you are a member of the admissions committee. Your assign is to decide which if any of the following applicants should be admitted keeping in object that a student with a 3.8 GPA and a 26 ACT could be admitted in the displace of each. (Unless otherwise stated the ecclesiastical recommendation was positive and the applicant is a seminary have. The names and characterizations below are all totally fictitious.)
: hit is a highly recruited blue-chip quarterback from California. His GPA is 2.50; ACT is 22; he has an acceptable recommendation from his pastor; and he attended two Bible Camps with his church youth. He admits to experimenting with marijuana a couple of times but none in the past year.
: Jose is Hispanic. He and his family are all LDS and his parents have provided strong church leadership in Las Vegas for two decades. His GPA is 3.10 and his ACT score is 22. Jose is a seminary have and is strongly recommended by his bishop (his father). (Only 258 Hispanic students have been admitted this fall to B. Y. U.)
: Karl is African-American and his family lives in North Carolina. His GPA is 3.00 and his ACT advance is 22. He and his family are converts of about five years. (Forty-four African-Americans undergo been admitted to BYU. More than half are athletes.
: Jerry is a Catholic from flavor Lake City. His GPA is 3.40 and his ACT advance is 24. He is a prodigy on the clarinet and was recruited by both the Eastman educate of Music and Juliard. He wants to come to BYU to enter its fine music program and to stay closer to his domiciliate and friends.
: Rhonda is from Idaho. Her parents are both graduates of BYU. In fact her care is one of BYU’s major donors having given five million dollars last year to assist with the construction of a new library wing. The extended family’s donations have totaled nine million dollars over the past ten years. Rhonda’s GPA is 3.00 and her ACT score is 22.
: Sharon is twenty-three the parent of a six-year-old daughter. She was divorced after just three years of marriage and she finished high school just this year. Her GPA and ACT scores are 3.30 and 23. She works part-time to earn about half what she needs and her parents have promised to help her with the rest. She went to seminary only two years but her current bishop gives her a strong recommendation.
: Erin is from Vernal. She is confined to a wheelchair having survived a permanently disabling car accident when she was twelve years old. Her GPA is 3.70 but her ACT advance is only 21. While in high educate she organized a drive to raise money for converge cancer investigate which netted $6,000 and she served as a inform instruct to peers who had drug problems.
: Alan is from Texas. His GPA is 4.00 and his ACT is 34-high enough to be considered for BYU’s most prestigious scholarship. He and his family are long-time members of the perform but Alan is not a seminary graduate. He played trombone in the high school move band which rehearsed before educate at the same measure as seminary. Alan’s perform activity was marginal but his bishop thinks BYU might be a good affect. Alan has been recruited by many schools including The University of Texas at Austin (which has offered him a full ride) and Stanford University (which has offered him a fifteen thousand dollar scholarship).
: Mohammed (or “Mo” as he encourages his friends to call him) is a Palestinian Arab and Muslim. His parents are business persons and Mo came with them two years ago to Thousand Oaks. California and attended high educate there. He speaks English reasonably well and learned about BYU from high educate friends who are applying. His ACT score is only 20 and his high school GPA is 2.9 though it was 3.2 his senior year.
Biff Armstrong – YesJose Rodriguez – YesSally Sahlem – NoKarl Davis – YesJerry Genteele – YesRhonda Randsom – YesSharon Solitary – NoErin Able – YesAlan Smart – YesMohammed Al-Sharrif – No
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