Top 10% arguement

I disagree with Eduardo about the top 10% of highschool students getting automatically accepted to college. The main argument is not every highschool is equal. Some highschools are more challenging than others due to their economics and size. If you go to a poorer school, you generally need a lower GPA to be in the 10%. Whereas at a richer school, that is more competitive, you need a very high GPA to make the top 10%. Also, the size of school can be an issue. A small school with a graduating class of 100 only gets 10 kids automatically accepted to college. A larger graduating class of 300 gets 30 kids automatically accepted. Now who is to say which kids truly deserve to get automatically accepted, because the math does not take in account of the difficulty of the school?

Sometimes kids are not ready for college right away. Again if you didn’t go to a competitive highschool and got to be in the top 10% because you had a large graduating class, doesn’t mean you are ready for college. In highschool you don’t learn time management. I propose using just your GPA, SAT scores, and an essay exampling why you should be automatically accepted to college would better judge to person to see if they are ready for college.