that's already the case with many US colleges.
The state university I attended in NJ was literally an extension of high school for many “preferred minorities”; they would waste away in “remedial classes” (high school-level classes without which white guys weren’t even admitted) for a couple of semesters earning no college credits before dropping out.
The whole idea of “general education requirements” (basic classes in English, Math, etc. required regardless of your major) are a waste of time & money, and provide a high school atmosphere to at least the first two years of college.
4+ years that could be productive working? That’s 10% of ones work life wasted. Most jobs do not require a college degree. 18 year-olds should live at home for 2-4 years and invest ALL their income. They will be much better off 40 years down the road.
Start it off by paying 1000 valedictorians $100k to NOT go to college.
My daughter is in college now. Just finished her first year. We home schooled her instead of public high school. She just turned 18 about a month before she finished her first year.
It is pathetic that she had to show other second year students how to do the chemistry. They often asked where she learned it. She replied in high school chemistry. Just shows how pathetic public school really is.
Really they start so far behind students from 20 years ago when I went. What was expected back then is now second year. That is what we based her education on was the requirements from when my wife and I entered college.