Letters to the editor: We need a more holistic approach to college applications than CAO

A reader comments that students’ ambitions should be encouraged individually and not as part of some statistical game of probability

'If a student is brave enough to declare, 'I want this and only this', that level of drive and ambition should be encouraged, not watered down to the prospect of 'we’ll see what points you get'.' iStock

Once again, the CAO season is approaching, and students will begin selecting their main and ‘just in case’ courses like punters filling out a Lotto slip. If students don’t get their main course, they will end up doing something else. Whatever happened to going for your dream vocation?

If a student is brave enough to declare, “I want this and only this”, that level of drive and ambition should be encouraged, not watered down to the prospect of “we’ll see what points you get”.