[BenLurkin]

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

[Kriggerel]

What would colleges be like if SATs were the sole admission criterion?

For starters, I would not have any education higher than high school, instead of a Master’s degree and two bachelors’. I’d either be working, unloading trucks at Wal-Mart, or flipping burgers.

Thankfully, in my case, they looked at a great many other things BEYOND SAT scores.

[Zathras]

A: Megan McCain, Chelsea Clinton and Amy Schumer wouldn’t have graduated from High School.
There is only so much Stupid that can be fixed.

[Trump.Deplorable]

I propose a free university

But not the Bernie or Warren way

One based solely on academics and aptitude. Skin color, “gender”, income, parent’s income, etc are not requirements and will not even be asked of the applicant.

Only the best of the best is allowed to attend, free of course.

The college is funded by donations from corporate and private estates/grants, and alumni

Every graduate of this ultra elite school would be encourage to donate, when they are able to, to help the next generation of graduates to attend for free as well.

That is how “free” college should work. It should be earned.

[George Rand]

Depends on how you look at it I suppose. I didn’t get great scores on the SAT, ACT or the GRE, but have a 3.9 in my graduate school and am funded by the state because of my work ethic. As far as I’m concerned, in my experience the men and women I’ve worked with that tout high SAT or ACT scores are rather.... Plain.

[pepsi_junkie]

I think an interesting thought experiment is to wonder what America would look like today if the GI Bill hadn't gotten millions of men who served in WW2 and Korea into college when they had no hope of it prior to the bill. These were not people who wanted to study basket weaving and gender studies, they wanted to learn marketable skills. Business, engineering, etc. That generation ushered in a serious technology boom from the 50s to, say, 1990 (30 years after the Korean war vets graduated). Not all of them were GIs, of course, but a lot were.

Now that we have that image in our minds, what will America look like in 50 years after the current crop of college students have overseen our future that far?

[King_Corey]

Liberal programming of smarter kids.
More people doing brain dumps and crash courses on how to manipulate the SAT for higher scores. Mommy paying for tutors and test prep courses. (Varsity Blues)
Add a dose of Mostly Asian and White kids and a scream of discrimination. Ask how Obama and Biden’s kids got into the top schools... They didn't do it by their scores. Without favoritism how will liberal elites buy their way by pandering to the egg heads that run the schools?

[G Larry]

We’d have more and better qualified doctors and engineers.

[katana]

Actually, it would look like a Comic-Con convention being held in Singapore or Bangalore, with a smattering of non-Asian faces filling out the mix. What would be even more shocking would be how the Georgetown basketball team would “pale” in comparison to its predecessors.

[Midwesterner53]

And the increase in white enrollment is exactly why we will never see merit use to admit students.

[A_perfect_lady]

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

[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.