If you listen to any interviews after a college football game, you instantly know that colleges no longer have any sort of criteria for entrance. The football programs (and most definitely the basketball programs) have "tutors" who sit beside the athletes and do on-line homework. You and I both know the tutor is doing the work because once you hear a few words out of the mouths of these young men you are positive they are not able to comprehend college level ANYTHING. I have no doubt that many of them don't read at an 8th grade level, if at all.
And colleges now offer remedial classes for writing and math before the college level courses. In other words they are doing the job of the free public high schools.