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In his article, "Plague of "Early Decision'"(2016), Frank Bruni, a New York Times' columnist, argues against colleges allowing early decision/admissions. He claims that "applying early improves odds of admission and that the students who do so — largely to gain a competitive edge — come disproportionally from privileged backgrounds..." Bruni argues his claim by including statistics, links, and by providing experiences of friends whose children applied to their choice colleges early. His purpose is to persuade colleges and those applying to colleges to reconsider the pros and cons of early decision in order to make college admissions fair for students who aren't as privileged as others. His intended audience is upcoming high school graduates, parents of the students, and college admissions boards. He establishes a relationship with the audience by appealing to their emotions through discussing the unfairness of the system for underprivileged students.

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In the article "Plague of 'Early Decision' (2016), Frank Bruni, an avid New York Times' political columnist, argues that early decisions and early action are a disturbing, unfair and "dignity ravaging" part of the college admission. He states that "There’s been fervent discussion of the downsides of the process. But it's more prevalent than ever, with some selective schools using it to fill upward of 40% of their incoming freshman class", indicating that it is do or die when it comes to early applying. Bruni writes "The biggest problem by far: It significantly disadvantaged students from low-income and middle-income families." in order to draw attention to the unfair advantages given to the upper class and highly privileged grads. His primary audience are those who suffer from severe anxiety of this "plague", the underprivileged upcoming graduates, and also the "helicopter parents" who stress over their children waiting for the early admissions letter to arrive.

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In Frank Bruni's "The Plague of 'Early Decision'(2016)", he argues that early decision college applications fill up to 40% of the freshman class thus putting lesser privileged students at a disadvantage. Bruni provides multiple links to prove to his audience that early-decision applications largely give a competitive edge to those who come from privileged backgrounds with extensive help from their parents and counselors. He then asserts that most students need financial aid and can't afford the luxury of picking out a school in November, showing how early admission prevents select colleges from being socioeconomically diverse. Most high school seniors don't know what they want to pursue in life and to pick out a college at the beginning of the school year is pressuring. They also tend to slack off for the rest of the year since they've already made it into a college. But what Bruni states is the most concerning is the anxiety and pressure high school seniors feel to rush the admissions process so that they may get into a college they like. Bruni's end conclusion was that college has became a prestige rather than a place to achieve more knowledge.

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In Frank Bruni's article "The Plague of 'Early Decision' (2016), he argues that the process of early-decision and early-action applications can cause a frenzy for students and their parents and can lead to disadvantages for students of lower income because they need to look around more for the right school. Frank Bruni develops his argument by giving experiences that he has had with his friend's families with early decision and early action, gives statistics on how many colleges offer early decision and early action, gives an exact percent of how many students were admitted through early decision, and gives input on how this affects lower income families. Bruni's purpose is to inform people of the disadvantages with early decision and early-application in order to show how this can be unfair for students and their families. Bruni's intended audience is quite broad because he wants people to see how how early decision and early-action application causes a frenzy for students and parents and also how it can have more of an advantage for privileged students.

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In the article,The Plaque of 'Early Decision' (2016), Frank Bruni argues that early decision college applications are important to the admissions of college. Bruni uses statistics and past experiences of friends to strengthen his argument. The impact of this decisions can cause a panic for the students and parents. With early admissions, some students believe that what they do from there on after they have been accepted and will let their grades drop and not really care about what else they do in school until they get to college. Families with low income may need to do a little more searching for the right college to fit their financial needs and may not be able to do early admissions.

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The Plaque of 'Early Decision' (2016) was written by Frank Bruni as an critical and argumentative essay that explains due to early applications to colleges is not only unfair to the lower classes but it causes the student with more stress. With the use of personal narrative and research Bruni develops his claim that the impact of early admission can lead to a handful of panicking until the acceptance letter comes back. Throughout the essay Bruni's purpose seemed more about the disadvantages of early acceptance than the actual applying to college part. The intended audience for this essay would be students applying for college, parents how who children applying to college or just children in general.

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In Frank Bruni's educational article, "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), he implies that early decision is considerably more of an injustice towards students that come from lower income families. Bruni recites how early admission is not only stressful, but also easily miscommunicated between the schools, students, and their families. Frank Bruni portrays what is miscommunicated between the schools and students in order to persuade them to become more informed. The author's intended audience are students and parents preparing for applying for college.

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In the article, "The Plague of Early Decision" written by Frank Bruni (December 21, 2016) implies how some high school students obtain the early decision of acceptance to college impacts the way students will overall achieve after they've been accepted early on in their senior year and the effect of some students who don't get the same advantage of early acceptance. Frank Bruni develops his thesis by using scenarios that would show the outcome of the impact on some students because parents and students would do anything to get into college, or help their child become successful. "He impersonated a dean of admissions who could give their kids slots at an elite university."  Bruni' s purpose was to assess the advantages but mainly the big impact on how early college acceptance can have a huge failing on some students during the second part of their senior year because they feel they don't have to try as hard or apply themselves more in the classroom. Bruni's intended audience seems to be the ones who are privileged of being able to go ahead and apply early to their first college of choice, but also the families who are less privileged with being able to have that advantage.

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The Plague of 'Early Decision'(2016) is a piece by Frank Bruni in which he claims how early decisions for college affects many families lives and that it creates an unequal and unfair advantage to different economic backgrounds. Bruni develops his thesis by giving examples that he has experienced first hand in which families are constantly waiting and stressing about the decision of a college to accept their child, and then how people would do whatever it takes to get the child in their favorite or their number one choice college, he states statistics about the early decision process and he gives very in depth details about the disadvantages that low income and middle class have in this process. Frank Bruni's essay is written to a broad audience as he is tries to inform many about the main impact of early decisions.

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"The Plague of Early Decision"(2016) is an opinionated and critical argumentative essay written by Frank Bruni in which he claims how early applications and decisions impacts many parents and students and that it leads to a unfair proportionality of different economic families in colleges.  Frank Bruni develops a supports his thesis by giving personal events in which parents and their children are anxious and terrified about if they got admitted to the colleges they want, showing how anybody would do anything to help them or their child get into college,  giving precis statistics about the number of colleges administering early admissions and how much of that early admission makes up their freshman class, and giving distinctive details on different economic families who have a disadvantage, as well as having input from prestigious people which help give different standpoints. Bruni, in his article, has a purpose to express and inform people of how early admissions can dictate who is in the freshman class and how this serves as a disadvantages for low and middle income families. The author's intended audience is quite broad and the author tries to connect with those who may not see the true impact of early admissions.

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In Frank Bruni's article " The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), Bruni writes a critical and argumentative essay about how early applications and decisions affect the lives of not only children that apply but their parents as well which propels into the unfair college system where the people with "low income, and middle income families" are already at a disadvantage. Bruni develops a supported thesis with personal events in which parents and their children suffer from anxiety waiting to know if they got into the college they wanted to get into, knowing that anybody would do anything if they could to help the chances of getting in higher, giving statistics of the number of colleges administering early admission and the percentage of the early admissions accepted that make up the freshman class, but also how the details of the disadvantaged families and some one who has a prestigious input. The authors audience is the college board officials and the families of those applied, the families of the ones who are at the disadvantage.

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In Frank Bruni's article, "The Plague of 'Early Decision"(2016), Bruni writes an opinionated and critical argumentative essay, which he claims how early college applications and decisions effect the students and parents and with each family having different financial situations are putting them in unfair circumstances with the decision of the colleges. Bruni develops his claim by using a personal example of friends awaiting their child to receive an answer from the college and describes how they were getting anxious about the wait which is to defend his claim and quotes from people in the educational field that support his argument which gives more credibility which helps people agree with the claim. In his article he gives a purpose that is to inform and express people of how this early decision making impacts student's future and families with low-income come with a disadvantage in the decision. Bruni's intended audience would be quite broad with writing something that everyone can come to terms with and tries to connect with them to let those know the impact of applications.

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In "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), Frank Bruni argues that early- admission and early-decision to a college can impact many students and parents of different economic backgrounds both negatively and positively depending on their financial status. He uses research and prior knowledge to explain and compare the disadvantages students from low-income and middle-income families can have when applying and/or deciding on a college to some of the advantages students from privileged families have. Bruni's purpose is to inform his audience about the negative effects that early-admission can have in order to give more perspective to his audience. His intended audience seems to be parents and students considering early-admission and decision and also school boards who encourage and work with early-admission and decision.

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In Frank Bruni's Op-Ed article "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), he argues that early decision can negatively affect a student's performance. He uses previous knowledge and research to show that early decision is unfair to low-income and middle-income families, forces students to decide on a school and career before they fully understand their options, allows for seniors to slack off during second semester, and sets students up in a situation that is more about "attaining prestige rather than acquiring knowledge." Bruni explains the disadvantages of early decision and how it can be detrimental to a student in order to persuade readers to fall more in line with what he believes. His intended audience is school boards so they can recognize the downfall in early decision and parents who want to be supportive of their child and want to see a different perspective of early decision.

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In Frank Bruni's article "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016) he argues that the process of early-decision and early-admission applications is a very "dignity-ravaging frenzy" for both the students and the parents, he states that it is at a disadvantage for "low-income" and "middle-income" families. Bruni developed his thesis by using actual facts that he has experience, when he talks about his friend that had to cancel dinner plans because it was the time when his daughter expected to hear from her top college choices, he also talks about his other friend's daughter that ended up getting a 3.9 GPA instead of a 4.0 which he says whats the difference, this proved how stressful and competitive it is for the student, then in the rest of the sentences he uses facts to prove his points. "The more time they have to figure it out, the better" which means in order to get into the college the student longed for they should all have a far amount of time, and it should fit everyones financial needs so that everyone gets a chance. Bruni's intended audience are the parents that have students that are around that time of stress and heartbreak or happiness just depending on the news, also they could be people that just agree that the students need more time to throughly complete their applications.

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In Frank Bruni's article "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), he argues that the early decision and early action college applications can cause the student to think of that early admission school as the only one for them, he describes them as a disadvantage to less privileged students who may need to shop around to choose the right college and can cause students to slack off at the end of high school. Bruni uses personal experience, statistics and research to show how this early admission process can help the privileged students get into the top universities and to show how the process is a disadvantage to those who are not privileged and may need to shop around when it comes to college. Bruni's purpose is to show that getting into college is less about your qualifications and more about playing the game. Bruni's audience seems to be colleges who are using or considering the early admission process and also college people applying for colleges by means of the early admissions process.

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In his Op-ed article, The Plague of 'Early Decision' (2016), Frank Bruni argues that the process of early admission that many colleges and universities now use caters to those who know how to play the system and is detrimental to less privileged students who need time to "shop around" for the right college. Bruni uses research, statistics, and personal experience to show that early admission improves ones chances of getting into a school and that it disproportionally helps the privileged and uses quotes of professionals who also agree with his stance to strengthen his argument. Bruni's purpose is to show that getting into a college is now more about prestige and playing the system then getting an education, in order to try moves other's opinions on early admission more towards his own. Bruni's intended audience seems to be college boards who use or are considering using early admission and people applying for college, people who the use of early admission affects.

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In Frank Bruni's Op-Ed article "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (Dec. 21 2016) he argues that the process of early admission and early acceptance that now a days many colleges and universities use are helpful to the students who are always one step ahead, but is also detrimental to the students who are less fortunate and need more time to decide what their future is. Bruni uses personal experience about parents and students being terrified and worried while waiting for their acceptance letter an, accurate statistics through the percentages of colleges using early admission and how many freshmen get accepted, and he uses input from authoritative people which helps with his standpoint and accuracy. Bruni's purpose is to express and inform people on how the early admission process can be terrifying and either an advantage or disadvantage depending on your families income. The intended audience of Bruni's piece is quite extensive but is mainly towards people planning to use early acceptance, and the college board.

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In his article, "The Plague of 'Early Decision'" (2016), Frank Bruni writes to argue that the early decision process is becoming detrimental to society by those who are applying early to colleges just to play with acceptance rate when other students need more time to chose and apply to the college that seems most fit for them. Bruni develops his argument with the support of personal experiences and research to show that a student who applies during early admittance is more likely to get in to than a student who doesn't apply during early admittance. Frank Bruni's purpose of his article is to show that now a days its not about the education offered but is about how well you can apply yourself on your application in order to try to make you look better than someone else applying to the same college. Bruni's intended audience is to the college board officials that are for applying early and to the students and parents of the students who are going or plan to apply early to colleges.

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The Plague of 'Early Decision', a critical description and assessment of the early admission system used by colleges by Frank Bruni, and was originally published on December 21st, 2016, with the intent of informing audiences of the dangers of the early admission system. Bruni developed his argument by using personal narratives and hypothetical examples, most notably when he opened the article with "As the moment of judgment neared...Panic overwhelmed them.", as well as a slew of rhetorical devices and statistics. Bruni's purpose was to inform the audience about the dangers and failings of the early admissions system in order to offer a better perspective on a system many do not understand fully. Bruni's intended audience seems to be "Less privileged" families, whom would be most severely, and negatively, affected by the continuation of the early admission process.

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In 2016 Frank Bruni wrote the article "The Plague of Early Decision" in this article he suggest that early admission for college is causing many effects on students from anxiety to slacking off in school and lack of fairness involving low-income families. Bruni develops his claim by personal narratives and evidence which includes statistics.  Bruni purpose is to explain how students are being effected by early admission and to bring awareness to this issue. The audience mostly consist of students and their parents awaiting actual colleges verdicts, Bruni builds a relationship with his audience by showing he understands how serious this issue is by providing evidence from his own life.