Posted on 05/27/2008 6:45:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This decision troubles me.
Because 'academic potential' today means your potential to be a doofus activist liberal who pushes socialism, womyn studies, and environmental justice, and NOT the ability to think, calculate, write, read, or produce anything of value.
Smith has been a joke, academically, since I was an undergraduate...and that was 36 years ago. Doubtless, there are and have been some quite intelligent graduates of Smith since then, but I consider their success to be **in spite of** that leftist indoctrination factory rather than because of it.
Standardized tests, especially of the general knowledge type like the SATs, are marginal predictors of “success” in college, but extremely good predictors of success AFTER college. These schools that are dropping the standardized test requirements are likely to end with students who get wonderful grades, but then have lousy incomes later, and aren’t in a position to donate much to the college, or to enhance the college’s reputation which attracts better applicants in the future.
From the article.
The Winston-Salem school, which admitted just 38 percent of its 9,000 applicants for this fall,
Yes indeed - Wake Forest University is known for its tough academic requirements in order to succeed (stay in school and graduate).
So now it will become known for its “diversity” of population.
And its academic reputation will dwindle.
May this sickness not infect Bowman Gray Medical school....
Great. So we’re going to remove about the only objective criterion for determining college admissions. Wonderful.
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