Posted on 07/10/2019 9:10:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many bar and dorm room conversations probably have centered on what colleges would look like if SAT scores were the sole criteria for admission. People have had their suspicions and cite anecdotal observations but now Georgetown University has quantitatively answered the question as least as far as elite universities go.
Anyone with a passing awareness of today's college admission policies knows that the student makeup would change if academics were the sole criteria. How much they would change is the question. As to whether using just SAT scores -- i.e. academic performance -- is good or bad is another matter.
Back to the Georgetown report.
Healy Hall at Georgetown University (photo credit: Gtwonsfs)
It claims the percentage of blacks and Hispanics would fall sharply from 19 percent to 11 percent. The whites student population would rise from 66 percent to 77 percent. And surprisingly, Asian students would fall from 11 percent to 10 percent. The study goes on to say that many of the whites in these select college would lose their seats to other better qualified white students.
In other words, the student mix would change noticeably.
There are a number of reasons why higher academically performing students lose seats to others. There are legacy admissions and sport scholarships. Both these skew the college population downward on the academic scale especially when it comes to big money-making sports like football and basketball. However, the greatest factor is a commitment to racial diversity. College administrators will literally go to any length the prove they are 'woke.'
Zero Hedge noted that black and Latino college enrolment is almost twice what it would be based on "merit" alone. And this is before the College Board introduces its so-called "adversity score," which is specifically designed to increase the minority presence in universities,
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Letting unqualified students in probably swells the freshman class with minorities, but I bet by junior year, they have dropped out.
Even more students would try to get a computer science degree and change their major after one or two courses than did back when I got my CS degree. :)
Tip: if you're nerdy enough to get a good STEM degree, chances are you don't need half of the government or university personnel trying to figure out how to convince you to choose a STEM career. You're already heading that direction anyway. When we push everybody to get a STEM degree we're trying to fit a bunch of square pegs into a bunch of round holes when it'd be best if we just got rid of welfare and let necessity encourage people to figure it out (of which I believe most will). For instance, even here in Alabama there's a shortage for good blue collar skills.
But the only reason, if any, for having the government involved in loaning money for ANY degrees is if there is an actual shortage of them and we need to encourage them for some reason.
Tiny Hillsdale College has their own group of lenders lined up to make student loans at a rate below what Fedzilla charges. They can do this because their students learn something useful and pay back the loans.
As far as I know, they don't even award STEM degrees because they are a Liberal Arts College. The point is that if they can operate on this model of finance, there is no good reason why any other college can't do the same.
No athletic scholarships, no cost for them, and no detraction from academics because any athletic team consisting of men over the age of 14 can compete with a high-level womens team.And think of the publicity!
If we’re still talking about Georgetown. On both the undergrad & grad level it awards science & math degrees. I am pretty sure it has no engineering program. In DC if you want to go to a Catholic school and do engineering you go to Catholic U of America.
These institutions must have a death wish. Education is going to shift radically in the future once the college experience is deaggregated and innovation figures out how to cut the cost 95%. Prosperous white alumni will the be best source of donations. I am celebrating now years in advance of the demise of these centers of leftist indoctrination.
Obama Kids? Ask how Obama got into college. In his autobiography, he boasted that his last two years of high school were a blur from drug use. No way he would have seen the inside of any college, had he not applied as a foreign national.
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