To All The Girls I Ve Rejected By Jennifer Delahunty Britz

Students at CU aren’t your typical college student. Students at CU are different. They are very friendly, outgoing, love the outdoors, love to have a social life, very studious, and most of all smart. Students at CU aren’t just in search of a good job, they are looking to make change. The reading, “To All the Girls I’ve Rejected” by Jennifer Delahunty Britz (1), describes how she believes young women are discriminated against when it comes to the college application. Considering an audience of typical CU students, the reading effectively uses the appeal to logos and pathos which in turns strengthens the ethos appeal of the reading, to assert that females applying for college should not be turned down due to the fact that colleges are in need

The author uses some very logical evidence strengthening her logos appeal of the reading that could easily persuade most schools nationwide. But what about those schools with contradicting statistics? The ones with more males then females. Ironically this logos appeal, although arguing that even though there are lots of females in college they should still be equally accepted, could effectively persuade the typical CU student. Britz uses some good evidence, but it doesn’t match up to our schools statistics. All of the articles stated above are saying that there are more women in colleges than males, although this may be true in various other colleges nationwide, it is still effective in its attempt to persuade a CU student because the statistics of CU are the other way around. Data taken directly off of the schools Institutional and Analysis Research website (4), shows that, for the year 2015, 56% of the alumni are males. That means the majority of our student body are males. The information dates back to the year of 1988 and every year since then, there has not been a single year where there has been more females than

Britz goes on to provide personal background by introducing the fact that her daughter was just waitlisted. She shows feelings to those young females that are rejected and apologizes for it. When Britz states at the end of the reading, “To parents and the students getting thin envelopes, I apologize for the demographic realities.” (Britz 772) Britz is showing some feelings indirectly so that an audience can feel for her and realize that this discrimination against female applicants is wrong. Britz successfully uses this pathological appeal because the audience will then gain some feeling for her