Posted on 06/14/2018 8:01:34 AM PDT by simpson96
If you live in Iowa you take the ACT since it’s headquartered in Iowa City.
A thinly veiled way to enact affirmative action without having to deal with the legalities of it. Classic move - if something is hard to achieve, simply lower the standards.
Seriously? Admission on GPA and a 2 minute video clip?
That’s a set up for failure. Unless they get rid of grading classes all together and just take money and hand out a graduation certificate. Which is another set up for failure when they try to take on an actual challenging job.
We dont care what you know! We care about how gullible you are!
This is the old “mist on a mirror” approach. If you can place mist on a mirror using your own breath, you get in..
I worked there for a summer grading ACTs! (Circa 1988)
It sucked. It was pretty mindless sweat shop answer checking.
Everybody gets a trophy!
We just keep moving downward....
So he admits that all those decades requiring testing were in error.
One needs to get rid of the SAT test in order to discriminate against Asians and Whites.
Race to the bottom - ready, set, go!
Univ of Chicago used to be a prestigious school ...
Life imitates art.......................
Baloney. This jackwagon just wants to "qualify" minorities who are incompetent.
The dumb-ing down of America continues.
I have one in college, one looking to go to college next yr, and a 13 yo. My wife is a teacher. Our houshold has some insight here.
There’s a lot of good, academically qualified kids out there. Problem is they’re only about 10% of the population(my estimate), of that, about 1-2% are highly qualified.
We get a University of Chicago flier about every two weeks, (and phone calls too). Maybe their problem is with geography? Maybe the problem is less highly academically qualified students?
You think I want to send my kid to Chicago to go to school? Sorry NOT!
I can see the dumb-ing down all around us, and it seems to be picking up steam. Why cut a standard of admissions which measures ability, unless you may not be getting enough students to choose from who meet those requirements?
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Curious to this move of their’s.
Merit is racist.
> he didn’t want “one little test score” to end up “scaring students off” who are otherwise qualified <
I wonder what he means by “otherwise qualified” (rhetorical question).
A lot of business schools have stopped requiring the GMAT. Its ability to predict success in graduate business classes has been questioned.
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