Need help from everyone please!!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Central Florida
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<p>Hey everyone, if you could I would appreciate it if you could take some time to help me out with an assignment for my English Comp 2 class. Input from anyone is gladly accepted! The class is based on rhetoric and currently I am working on a paper on which I follow an issue. However, the specific question I chose to work with is too specific and has not really been dealt with in any opinion articles or news articles. So I am asking people here for their opinion on the following issue.</p>

<p>The topic is UCF Growth, and the specific question I'm working with is a proposal: "Should UCF cap the number of students it admits from community colleges through the DirectConnect Program in order to control growth?"</p>

<p>I though this would be an interesting question to work with because it's never addressed. In 2007 a cap was placed on incoming freshman, which is around 3,000. However, the majority of incoming students each year actually are transfers. Of about 6,000 transfers that come in every year, 5,000 are from the DirectConnect program, only about 1,000 come from other univiersities. </p>

<p>I would appreciate it VERY much if someone left any kind of input. All I need is if you agree or disagree with the proposal, why you agree or disagree with it, and a title I can identify you with out of the following list: Current student, Prospective student, Parent of student (identify if current or prospective), Current student who came in as a transfer, or Student applying as a transfer. </p>

<p>Once again THANK YOU!!! (:</p>

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<p>Just a correction to a previously stated statistic that I mite have stretched a bit. This year UCF received 4,700 transfers, 4,200 from community colleges.</p>

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<p>If UCF is interested in increasing its reputation as a university with prestige then they should seriously consider a cap to remain a place of competition rather than handouts.</p>

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<p>Prospective (admitted) applicant.</p>

<p>I would agree with the point that if there is a cap placed on the amount of freshman applicants, there should definitely be a cap on the amount of transfer students. I know some students that believe that they can do crappy in high school then go to a CC and transfer after 2 years with no effort at all. The 2+2 program is great, especially for students that are not ready to go to a university straight out of high school or cannot afford 4 years for tuition at double the rate. I do think that there should be limits like a higher required GPA to transfer, etc. Students who work hard in their CC classes should be rewarded. </p>

<p>Felicia</p>