Yes, I have wondered.
Thanks for the answer.
One result of this is the value of a college education has been diluted. It means less because a degree is as common as a HS diploma, and the fact that a person graduated does not mean they actually had to earn their grades.
It included comments by students on those state universities that
ranked towards the lower end, and the one comment that stuck
with me is "...and everybody knows that URI is high school after
high school."
I fear that is probably now the norm for many schools, including
the private ones.
Remember that MIT biology professor that all but passed out
when then-Harvard president Larry Summers hinted at the
suggestion that there may be a difference between boys and girls?
Not to mention the Harvard tenured numnuts that added that as an
excuse to force Summers out. Larry stopped trying to do the
right things after that, and joined the ranks of the moonbat
lemmings.