“A companion study suggests one reason that high school graduates are not ready to stick it out in college: They can’t get the expert advice and support they need.”
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Who needs expert advice to go to college?
If they are not smart enough to figure it out themselves,with some parental help,they don’t belong in college.
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I read that as code for “They are completely unprepared for college academically, and there are no free tutors available 24/7 to take their exams for them”.
I watched affirmative action students in college a few decades ago, and it was so sad; each year there were fewer and fewer as you got closer to graduation. They may have thrived in a community college (and maybe from there moved on to a four-year school successfully), but they are always thrown in a step or two above their weight class - and consequently are doomed for the most part to fail. They end up uneducated, unemployable, and bitter.