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“Just Blind Chance”: The Rising Call For “Random Selection” For College Admissions
Nation & State ^ | 6-21-2021 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 06/21/2021 6:03:32 AM PDT by blam

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This stupidity must be stopped.
1 posted on 06/21/2021 6:03:32 AM PDT by blam
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Because hard work, having a game plan, and focus... racist entitlement.


2 posted on 06/21/2021 6:06:46 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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Random selections for medical schools and residency programs also. The stupid and lazy are people too and deserve equity in outcomes!


3 posted on 06/21/2021 6:08:12 AM PDT by House Atreides
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This seems to relate to the false Lefty idea that rich people are rich because they get lucky. Steve Jobs? Lucky. Henry Ford? Lucky. Why isn’t some super-woke ultra-pierced millenial NOT rich? They’re just unlucky.

If success in life is just about luck (where you’re born, who your parents are, who your second grade teacher was, etc.) then you might as well throw everything out the window and just randomly give people admission to college.

This is just a way for irresponsible people to shrug and say “I’m not responsible for my failures.”


4 posted on 06/21/2021 6:08:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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Rigorous pre admission admission test and no affirmative action. Also, transparent admissions process for the first time ever if you want fed funds.
5 posted on 06/21/2021 6:10:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Perhaps the leadership calling for this would be willing to put their names in a hat and let whatever name is drawn take their position along with the salary, retirement etc


6 posted on 06/21/2021 6:11:48 AM PDT by Josa
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Disagree. It is the only way that the education-industrial complex can be destroyed. Once getting into a college means nothing, getting a degree will also mean nothing. Kill the revenue stream to the big state universities and let the few colleges who still focus on merit succeed on their product. It’s the only way. The universities are too big, too rich, and too far gone to reform. The deadwood must be burned away...


7 posted on 06/21/2021 6:12:58 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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And it will soon become evident that the selection isn’t as random as they promote. A la, all those rich parents bribing school officials.

Did any of the school officials get locks up for their roles in that train wreck?


8 posted on 06/21/2021 6:14:57 AM PDT by qaz123
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Unfortunately, this just leads to apathy with K-12 students. Why bother, when you have no idea you’ll ever get into the college you would have previously qualified for?


9 posted on 06/21/2021 6:15:50 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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Make it completely transparent and unbiased. Apply get a computer generated, random number. No biographical data. Just numbers. D the decision is based on the grades and data associated with that number.


10 posted on 06/21/2021 6:17:33 AM PDT by qaz123
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The only part I’d agree with is removing all sports from academics. There’s no reason to mix them except for money.


11 posted on 06/21/2021 6:17:34 AM PDT by Shadylake
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The race to the bottom continues. China and India laugh yet again.


12 posted on 06/21/2021 6:17:41 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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It seems like a parody that this would become policy, but nothing would surprise me anymore.

If implemented, the real joke is on the faculty. They will hate teaching people in the lower half of the IQ scale (or even lower). In the end, they’ll throw up their hands and start giving out As as not to appear racist. This will, of course, accelerate the perception that college degrees are absolutely worthless. In short, they would be destroying their own institutions and they know it.


13 posted on 06/21/2021 6:19:58 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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As Western Civilisation decays, all standards lower.

When all standards fall, Western Civilisation will fall.

The Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation will be followed by another long Dark Age.

14 posted on 06/21/2021 6:20:02 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Western Civilisation is well worth fighting for! The wise and benevolent MUST win the fight!)
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The losers in this lottery will be the winners. They get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ultimately get a job making coffee at Starbucks.


15 posted on 06/21/2021 6:22:30 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I identify as fully vaccinated. )
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The highly selective schools are the ones with the most to lose, and therefore they will not do this. What is Harvard without the impression that simply gaining admittance is an achievement in its own right? and especially so for a white or asian kid


16 posted on 06/21/2021 6:22:44 AM PDT by babble-on
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The math professor is an idiot. The lawsuits are based on demographics of the resulting class body - and are required to conform to demographics of society as a whole (actually, in many cases to exceed demographics for certain privileged groups).

Random selection will be condemned as somehow being weighted againt a minority applicant, no matter what.

IMO, but based on observations of the idiocy of many successful lawsuits.


17 posted on 06/21/2021 6:23:15 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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Great idea!

And what are all these gifted programs?

How discriminatory can you get?

Since less than 1% of the population is truly gifted, they should let retarded people in too!

It should be 99.99% retarded and 0.01% gifted!


18 posted on 06/21/2021 6:23:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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In other words, those who have the right connections, as always.


19 posted on 06/21/2021 6:23:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Hey, Princeton and Haavad - show us you are at the forefront of progress!


20 posted on 06/21/2021 6:25:27 AM PDT by exinnj
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