Why do the supposed best schools need remedial classes
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Anonymous
| How many times have you posted about this? Your obsession is tiresome. |
Anonymous
Harvard has remedial math and reading classes and I don't think Ivirs offer athletic scholarships to cognitively challenged like some publics might. |
Anonymous
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Don't forget they also have students in the arts. It's not unusual for extraordinary artists to have a reading or math LD. Their brains work differently.
I have a sister with an MFA from Yale who struggled with math, but is extraordinary in her craft |
Anonymous
| For ALDC kids |
Anonymous
My understanding is this remedial math class is for students who have to take freshman calculus for their major. So someone majoring in art would not need to take it |
Anonymous
| Because it’s not all that. |
Anonymous
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Because public education in America sucks. School systems are too busy closing the achievement gap by giving everyone one As. Practices such as unlimited test retakes in high school, TO colleges, etc.
Kids get to college and find out tests are one and done. Pace of class is much faster than the watered down AP courses they took in HS. Multitude of reasons actually. Hopefully we are seeing the end of the 4 to 6 year take of debt party for a large number of people who were never really college material. |
Anonymous
remedial classes became necessary when schools went test optional. nobody is getting a 750 is needing remedial classes. My kid isn’t at an ivy league, but is at virginia tech and like many high achieving kids entered as an academic sophomore and will finish in 3 years. However one doesn't need to take remedial classes when one gets a 1520 on the SAT which is essentially a test of the very basic fundamentals taught in high school. |
Anonymous
it really depends on where you went to high school and what you made of it. My kid is just wrapping up his first year and has commented that college is much easier than high school. I think for him the ease is that he doesn’t have to sit in 8hrs of class and can do a lot of independent study. He also is using all his AP classes he got in high school and has jumped right into linear ans Diff EQ first semester and though hard for all As first semester. |
Anonymous
| Affirmative action abs DEI admits just like what has been done to TJ in the name of DEI. |
Anonymous
Post your source for this offensive nonsense. It’s garbage. |
Anonymous
| I think this "remedial" thing is misunderstood on DCUM. |
Anonymous
The fact that TJ started to offer remedial math classes couple years after they changed the admission system to a DEI admission system. |
Anonymous
| You must be really hurting now? You have the right to feel sad. You can express that freely here. While you work through all these feelings just try to remember that everything will work out and probably much sooner than you think! |
Anonymous
Absolutely. |