Good news, kids. Everybody gets an A.
Yay.
I still don’t want to fly on a plane where the pilot says to the co-pilot: “I have a secret. I cheated all the way and can’t really land. Take over.”
Copilot: “That’s what I was going to tell you about myself.”
Pilot: “See if a passenger is over Macho Grande and can fly this thing.”
In a related story water is wet.
“So, why did universities engage in this “natural experiment”?”
MONEY! A bunch more “students” on guaranteed student loans.
DEI requires abandonment of all standards except the standard of victimhood.
A family member is in the college application process, and, man, thing were a lot simpler when I was a kid. So much gamesmanship is involved now. Some places, like California’s public universities, won’t accept the SATs/ACTs even if you wanted to submit them. A few top-tier private colleges still require them. The vast majority of colleges and universities in the middle are “test optional.” Which presents a dilemma for a kid with a good but not spectacular score. What if your SAT is likely *above average* for the particular college but might be *below average* for the applicants submitting a score because most of the applicants scoring lower than you opt not to submit a score, so your “good score” might be among the lowest of the applicant pool and you look bad by comparison? See the problem? Things were simpler when every damned college required the SAT/ACT and that was that.
THE SAT IS RACIS’!!!
So let’s dumb America down to whatever low intellect is necessary to ensure blakkk participation in edjumication at whatever percentage blakkks occupy in our teevee ads. 50%? 60%? 80%? Whatever!
No need to qualify to participate in the academy! Your color is your admission badge.
What could possibly go wrong??!? Because colonialism and hunnerd-fifty year old (fixed!) slavery DEMAND it of fragile white America.
(Note to Fury: I’m informing you of this racis’ post so you can stutter back “Grow Up”. M’kay? Because facts and statistics are a foreign language to you.)
Woke college can be replaced by a deck of flash cards?
Any college applicant that can’t solve 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 needs to be given a city bus ticket off campus and a kick in the azz.
The bus ticket is optional.
No one will hire the dopes. And then the colleges get a bad reputation, then less people go there, then the college loses funding, and less people go there, etc...
The public colleges are way overfunded. Shouldn’t waste resources on stupid students. Cut the funding, teach the top students.
I cant remember, but did the previous tests have anything similar on it like to pattern recognition, like childhood tests. Childhood IQ and competency tests used to reward and praise children for pattern recognition.
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Ah, the fruit of public education.
As well as the capable and intelligent students who are not focused on useful fields like math and hard sciences. A few, many of whom qualify as Asperger's or high functioning autistic get through very well because their minds are totally focused on these these things. Other intelligent students are not so focused and get sucked into trendy and nonremunerative majors like Transwomen's Literature of the 1850s.
Well, then...
IF high school diplomas, grades, and GPAs mean nothing
and SAT scores are the most important indicator for college admissions,
then why must students submit high school transcripts for college admission?
Why not admit students by their SAT scores alone?
Many homeschoolers would love that policy, instead of jumping through extra hoops because they never went to school, even if their SAT scores are high.
Everyone here should make a decision: Either the high school diploma counts for something... or not.
Sadly, they will be left paying the price.
So will we all as they enter a workforce becoming dumber because of their pass thru diplomas and crippling debt.
I guess it makes a kind of sense when you see some video of a college grad pulling coffee because the “can’t find a job”. Maybe it’s because they aren’t proficient in their field or hold a useless diploma...
What’s just as bad is ditching aptitude tests for the trades... DOH.
They had DEI students with perfect straight A GPAs and phony baloney admissions paperwork from inner city high schools admitted who had problems with the most basic arithmetic and reading/writing skills. These students did not even belong in college, much less a top ranked university. It was a debacle
I had a lifelong friend who has since passed away who was an engineering professor at a well-known state university. He started his career at small mid-western engineering college that has a well-respected reputation for its engineering graduates. He pointed out, however that much of the faculty there was not particularly highly credentialed. His point was that the college’s reputation for excellent graduated was not due to the teaching staff, it was due to its extremely high admission standards. It was good only because it chose good students, not because it had good instructors. I’m quite sure this holds true all across the university spectrum. The universities that chose crummy students will get crummy graduates.
It is an unfair money-grab to admit students who will never graduate. Universities excel at such greed.
Schools got so bad that hardly anyone who “graduated” was eligible for college.....and Kalifornia schools led the way down into apathetic ignorance...