What Would Colleges be Like If SATs Were the SOLE Admission Criterion?

American Thinker ^ | 07/10/2019 | Peter Skurkiss

[A_perfect_lady]

Letting unqualified students in probably swells the freshman class with minorities, but I bet by junior year, they have dropped out.

[Tell It Right]

"What Would Colleges be Like If Only STEM Students Could Receive Federal Loan Assistance?"

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.

[Vigilanteman]

I am, by no means, advocating that everybody get STEM degrees. They aren't for anybody.

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.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

athletics, costs too much and takes the focus off of academics

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 women’s team.

And think of the publicity!

[Reily]

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.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

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.

[Sgt_Schultze]

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.