Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admissions

Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:24PM (#27307905)

Universal access (free) to community colleges, remote learning MOOCs from those top in their fields. Commodify higher education and distribute widely, don’t reward artificial scarcity.

Existing colleges do not have incentives to do this. They are incentivized to protect the value of their brand and their institution, and to preserve scarcity and gated access to credentials.

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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by tolbish on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:36PM (#27308103)

Except Colorado just banned legacy admissions and dropped their SAT/ACT requirement.

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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:10PM (#27308593)

Someone will be making a subjective determination for each student based on something that isn’t a test score or legacy attribute (“feels”, their “story”, whatever you want to call it). Not exactly universal access imho (although I agree legacy should’ve never been a deciding factor).

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