This may be the start of the actual collapse of higher education.
Here in NJ some colleges became “SAT optional” because they’d rather have unqualified semi-literates than empty seats. Higher education has been dying a slow death since the end of the draft meant people didn’t need deferments anymore; even while expanding the quality of students - and teachers - has been declining.
It is just a business (learning is secondary - or irrelevant), and fewer young Americans want to go into debt to keep it alive. My school in NJ was filling with foreign students decades ago, and now some schools have reversed their de facto ban on white males because the schools became a joke.
Smart employers and business recruiters read between the lines. College is just another clue. CA degrees are as valuable as a CO degree.Test scores are just another trap for the test prep industry. It is clear that parents will spend anything to get what they want.
Just what I desire:
An ‘engineer’ with such a diploma designing airplanes & autos.
A surgeon doing my back surgery.
A dentist pulling all my teeth & trying to fit me with dentures.
An accountant preparing my tax forms.
There already is enough incompetent people working all over the country. This is lunacy.
The inmates are in charge of the asylum.