These unofficial requirements for college are becoming one of the reasons for the increasing stress of applicants. Students should focus on their academic studies during their high school years. Unfortunately, not only are students stressed when applying to college, but they are also stressed after they enroll in college. Due to high tuition costs, some students have to take out student loans. Cook concludes by arguing that high schools should help their students not only apply to college, but also learn basic skills that can be used after college, and that college admissions processes university must be modified. In “Is the College Admissions Bubble About to Burst?” » Lindsey Cook (2014) explains why students struggle to apply to college. Cook expresses that high school students focus too much on applying to college. Two main problems with his idea that I want to discuss are that college application processes are too competitive and