Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
by throwawaysea on Sunday August 30, 2020 @03:46AM
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I agree. The focus on extra curricular activities is ridiculous. Even for students who demonstrate them, it must be frustrating to have to devote time to those activities instead of your personal life or other passions.
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And all that just to give people illusion that they got in through special merit, not just baseline merit + some luck.
It would be much cheaper and much better for both students and universities if applications were handled by a random number generator. That is, from the pool of students that applied to a given facility and crossed some per-faculty grade threshold, just bin then together and pick at random, until all places are filled.
(If you're worried about grade inflation, introduce university-provided exams instead. And/or design the first year to aggressively weed out anyone who can't pull their weight.)
But alas, there are lots of people making lots of money from handling admissions and providing extracurriculars, I'm pretty sure they'd object :).
Re:Secrets of Elite College Admissions
by PhantomGremlin on Sunday August 30, 2020 @09:16AM
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If you're worried about grade inflation, introduce university-provided exams instead.
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How is that any better than SAT or ACT?