Compare the advantages and disadvantages of requiring college freshman to complete at least a year of college classes before selecting a major versus having them choose right away. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
There is a huge debate about delaying freshman to commit their major immediately. Some argue that the requirement will waste the student time, therefore, waste their money. In the contrary, the freshman who spent at least a year before choosing their major, have a less regret thus they usually have a better score. I personally believe that the latter is more suitable for me because of several advantages and disadvantages that I would like to compare in this essay.
In one hand, requiring freshmen to choose their major immediately will benefit them immeasurably. First, they most likely spent less money for the college fee. Since they will able to finish all the required subject and credit earlier, they will most likely to save at least one-semester tuition. Second, for freshmen who already know exactly what major they would like to pursue, started the major faster will give them more time to finish their research and started their internship. It is a fact that year-end thesis could be time and money consuming. The students who started their research immediately, most likely produce more high quality, higher impact with a deeper understanding in their year-end thesis. Not only the thesis would be able to disseminate in the prestigious scientific journal, but also they could gain a research funding for additional income. This will happen if they give substantial time in the field instead of wasting it in a year college class.
In the other hand, freshmen who spent at least one year before started their major will have several advantages. They will be able to adjust to university life before take-on a bigger responsibility. From my experience, a transition from a high school to a university could be very overwhelming. I confused about the study plan, how to chose the book to read, and how to write an undergraduate level essay. This will resolve by spending more time in university life before started the major.
In addition, the one-year college classes also prepare me to fulfil my compulsory subject before I started my major. Take for example; student must have prerequisite knowledge in advanced math before they can pursue public health major. The math is very important to support the epidemiology subject which is a capstone in public health. The one year time also give the freshman to make up their mind about their major, they will able to research more before committing to one.
Ultimately, because they are well informed before choose the major; they will likely finish the education with flying color.
In conclusion, the requirement of taking college classes at least a year have advantages and disadvantageous. With all the things considered, I prefer to have at least one year before committed to my major since I believe the requirement will benefit me the most.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, second, so, therefore, thus, well, at least, for example, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2359.0 1977.66487455 119% => OK
No of words: 466.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06223175966 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69350919863 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450643776824 0.524837075471 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 749.7 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.1131168748 48.9658058833 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.2916666667 100.406767564 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4166666667 20.6045352989 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.41666666667 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232228118398 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.08351875835 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780586444816 0.0737576698707 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156269766057 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.079188676005 0.0645574589148 123% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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