The dumbing down of America continues.
It appears obvious that greedy politicians and the corporate elite want to drag America down to third world status.
Rent the movie “Idiocracy” (if you have not seen it). It is where we are truly headed. !
LLS
This doesn’t look like “dumbing down” to me. This young man’s SAT scores were below the median for Amherst’s accepted students, but very like within the low end of the range of all students accepted under normal criteria. He graduated from a middling private prep school in Miami, which he alse attended on scholarship. He was clearly prepared to do the work at the level of other students (in fact, he graduated with honors and earned high grades in no-fluff courses including calculus and organic chemistry).
These “elite” schools know they have way too many lazy rich kids on their campuses, and want to balance that with some serious students. The insane parent-driven and prep-school-driven measures that have been commonplace in the effort to get upper and upper middle class kids into “elite” colleges have gone so far overboard that it’s safe to assume most of those kids would have much much lower SAT scores, grades, extracurricular resumes, etc. if they’d been left to their own efforts and normal levels of parental supervision. In NYC, it’s very common for parents to hire consultants to help market their tots for admission to the “best” nursery schools. And that level of insanity continues right through high school, with expensive standardized test prep courses starting in middle school.
“The dumbing down of America continues.
It appears obvious that greedy politicians and the corporate elite want to drag America down to third world status.”
The schools mentioned in the article are private colleges.
Harvard’s endowment is so large that they can afford to cover the costs of every student that they admit who is low income. Any student admitted from a family earning $40,000 a year or less goes to Harvard for free and any student admitted from a family earning $40,000-$60,000 gets reduced tuition and room & board.