Posted on 06/14/2018 8:01:34 AM PDT by simpson96
Ability is racist.
Oh, and so is math.
So that cheapens a college degree yet again.
Funny thing is that this still won’t move the meter on outcomes like they want.
It is both, there are tons of posts and articles about the declining value of a University degree as in large part virtually all instruction is done by Educrats that have never worked a day in their lives in the discipline they teach. And in addition, many of the classes are conducted by lesser non professors as the big cheeses are writing papers under the Publish or Perish dictum that permeates the Edutocrcy in general
All the kids from the New England prep schools. Phillips Exeter, Choate, St Pauls, Groton, Hotchkiss.
There are tons of them. Boarding and Day Schools.
They take it much more seriously than the typical Midwest schools.
Thanks-—I live in the Northeast-—but I didn’t know where you were.:-)
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Are you: black, hispanic, illegal alien, moozlum, lgbtgq, tranny, female, disabled, mentally unbalanced, ms-13 (or all of the above)??? You are IN!
Chem Prof here and first generation college student (Class of 1972). When I first heard of the SAT my reaction was “you mean there is a test with right and wrong answers and how much you get right is your score?” and “ there’s no way to adjust for who your old man is or how much you suck up to teacher?”
That’s all I ever wanted in demonstrating my worth. This stuff makes me sad.
Wow! A mere five paragraphs down. I would have thought they would have put this in small print as a footnote at the end of the piece.
While their at it they should probably get rid of that outdated requirement of graduation from high school since it only serves to further White Privilege and unfairly places at a disadvantage People of Color.
My son goes to a top Day School in Cincinnati. But I know that programs at the schools I mentioned above take things to the next level.
I am hoping for a Top 50 school, but hes really got to work at it! A lot of competition at the top tier schools.
As Im sure you know, with all the great schools near you!
Brilliant. A shithole university in the making. Shows the racism of low expectations better than the most bigoted person could possibly articulate.
They didnt say how many of the < $125000 kids would be let in. College is turning into a high priced joke anyway. Tradesmen make a lot of money if they do good reliable work and are honest.
Dont kid yourself.
Chicago might make the SAT optional - but if youre white, you had better take it.
Its a huge problem for elite schools - how to admit the best whites while achieving the correct ratios.
If Chicago admitted 5 whites without SAT scores, Id be surprised.
Funny!!!
I guess we are out then!!!
I just hope my son finds a place he can be challenged and succeed on merit and not on political views.
I agree with it. If there had been no SAT/ACT when I was in high school, I would’ve studied a lot harder, which would’ve not only meant that I would’ve learned a lot more, but also that I would’ve developed some grittier habits that would’ve served me better later on. Instead, I sort of knew from the preliminary tests that my scores were going to be able to get me to where I needed to go, regardless of how little I applied myself in classes.
YEP-my sentiments exactly—That’s what we push in our home—NO worthless degree!
Good....now we can bring in more foreign workers to fill jobs.
I'd stay off bridges and out of high buildings in the not too distant future. If there are any newly built, that is.
cost of 4 year college is one of real problems and lack of diversity of those teaching the programs - no critical thing taught - since only liberal views allowed, no freedom of speech - those are the real problems of higher education - oh yes there is discrimination of Asian and whites to be sure...we have Asian American rising sophomore now in college - we know!
” as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.”
Research university...one of the latest buzzwords. Only meant to provide higher salaries to professors who don’t teach, and to add another layer of highly paid bureaucrats to the university.
And the students gain little to nothing, and get taught by grad students.
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