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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by tolbish on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:38PM (#27308138)
The argument is that dropping SAT/ACT requirements is bad for the school. So if that were actually true, then there should be data showing schools that dropped the requirement being worse off than schools that didn't.
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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by whoooooo123 on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:14PM (#27308633)
What does 'bad for the school' mean? As long as they continue to rake in the cash from tuition/sports/grants and can keep funding their ever-growing bureaucracies, will they care if educational standards have cratered? The evidence suggests that they don't.
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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by tolbish on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:44PM (#27308939)
If it were purely about money, they would not be axing legacy admissions.
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Re:Colorado becomes first state to ban legacy college admiss... by whoooooo123 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:32AM (#27313327)
The legacy kids will all still be admitted. The more vague and subjective the admissions criteria, the easier it is to shoo-in the rich kids and pretend it's about anything other than money. No wonder they're getting rid of the SAT.
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