Posted on 08/07/2017 3:28:50 PM PDT by davikkm
Politicians, state workers and the media talk constantly about how we must be doing more to get children into college, especially those from minority backgrounds or poorer families. But what is ignored is the fact that the number of people enrolling is nothing like the number of people graduating; at Cal Tech, the four-year graduation rate is just 19%. To solve this, California has declared that freshmen will no longer have to sit math and English placement tests!?!?!
23 colleges will be involved in the project that will kick off in 2018; and the aim of this idiotic experiment is to increase graduation rates to 40%. How they think putting ill-prepared kids into classes where they can’t actually manage the workload will possibly bump the graduation rates is anyone’s guess…But at least they will “look” like they’re trying.
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#### it! Just hand the a degree!!
Saves 4 years of learning nothing.
Expect Idiots, and they will receive idiots...
It is? I'd like to see some data/backup for that stat.
It would be simpler and more profitable if they could just sell diplomas.
I saw this move once. I think it’s name was Idiocracy. I thought it was for entertainment purposes only but I guess not.
Probably because most engineering courses take 5 years. The 5 year graduation rate would be more revealing.
The diagram down the page at this link seems to refute the 19%
https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/california-institute-of-technology/academic-life/graduation-and-retention/
Probably means to say Cal State.
The College Scorecard reports the CalTech graduation rate for 2014 was 92.3%
“””””I saw this move once. I think it’s name was Idiocracy. I thought it was for entertainment purposes only but I guess not.””””””””””””
I have Idiocracy in my frequently watched pile. It was meant as a comedy but it is much more of a documentary.
College Scorecard: 53% graduation rate for Cal State (combined)
19%. So the graduation rate as a percentage of the population is perhaps where it was in, say 1880 or 1950? Could be maybe...?
Maybe that is for the ones who are remedial students allowed in for diversity purposes
Colleges have become the breeding ground for Socialism.
It looks like the commonly cited 80% Caltech four-year grad rate excludes incoming students who fail to complete required remedial courses, and it of course it excludes students that take longer than four years but still graduate. The remedial courses are not for college credits.
bkmk
HL Mencken’s quote about raising black flags comes to mind.
Cal Tech has an 8 percent admission rate. 99 percent of them graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class. The middle 50 percent scored an 800 on their math SAT and 2240–2340 overall.
I don't think they do much remedial work.
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