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Hello everyone! I'm preparing for my GRE and I'm having a lot of difficulties with the math section so I've been focusing on that part for the last two months and I think I underestimated this section. Argument Analysis is particularly tricky I think so I'd really appreciate if you could take some time and share your suggestions with me! Any criticism will help! Thanks a lot in advance! The following appeared in a memo from the director of student housing at Buckingham College. "To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckingham's enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham." Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument. The idea of building new dormitories for the students of Buckingham College, whose matriculation number is growing, seems to respond to the rising housing prices in the area and therefore accommodate the needs of its prospective students. While these arguments amount to a convincing proposal, further information is necessary in order to fully comprehend the issue. First of all, detailed information on current dormitories and the ratio of students living in and off campus is necessary. Should we learn that the current dormitories exceed the university’s needs and that the costs of their maintenance exceed their revenues, this project would be very unlikely to be approved by the Board. L Linked to the previous question, is the issue of the university’s budget. In order to approve or refuse this proposal, a clear idea of the university’s financial situation would have to be taken into an account in order to understand whether the university can actually undertake such an ambitious and financially challenging endeavor. General budget should also be evaluated together with any possible mandatory project the university already approved or intends to implement. While dormitories represent an important aspect of the campus, facilities such as the library, gym, perhaps the pool etc. may need urgent restoration, which would significantly shrink the budget. In addition to the financial situation of the university, possible announced reforms of the higher education could significantly alter the expected number of future applicants, therefore curving the estimation on future students and their need of Buckingham dormitory. For example, in 2012 when British authorities raised tuition ceiling for 200%, the British university saw a decrease of 15 000 students in a single academic year. This is why these projects based on statistical prognostics need to be studied together with economic visions of tomorrow. Lastly, considering that the author of the text implies that new dormitories could serve to incite prospective students to apply to this university, past surveys of high school graduates could shed light on the applicants’ methods of selection in order to ensure that a factor such as dormitory does, in fact, rank as a potent variable, capable of alluring prospective students. All in all, while the author of the text makes compelling arguments that could possibly ameliorate the quality of the students’ life at Buckingham University, further information on the university’s financial situation and effective need for new dormitories is indispensable in order to assess the entire suggestion.