Should admissions be more transparent?
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Anonymous
Honest question what is wrong with his statement? He’s 17. He’s writing about why he changed his mind about wanting to go to college. He’s talking about self reflection, self learning and interacting with different types of people. |
Anonymous
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Of course they should be more transparent. But they need to be more transparent BEFORE admissions, and admit based on national exams and courses taken in school. None of this extra-curricular stuff. That's too dependent on family wealth.
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Anonymous
No college wants to be a brag bullet on the next Zuckerberg's profile. "Dropped out of XYZ to run their third VC funded startup" No upside for the university. The whole world knows this kid was successful and the they didn't get anything out of being there. Better to give a seat to someone who actually needs college |
Anonymous
Rea the comments. There are some really insightful ones.
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Anonymous
| No. Nobody has a right to go to any school unless by law, like UT. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
Give me a break. |
Anonymous
| First of all this kids parents are loaded, and he had personal tutoring from a world renowned programmer. And no doubt many other tutors. He was given 2 million dollars to use AI to create his app and it had some initial success. And now he just suddenly wants to go to college. Why? Why the tutoring and all the effort keeping his grades up over the years if he had no intention of going to college? Statement AI generated also. |
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Yeah, OP. Let’s put all the applicants in a stadium with their data pinned to their chest before they fight for survival of the admissions process. Sounds brilliant. 🙄
Why are the least logical people hanging out in the college forum? There must be a correlation. |
Anonymous
May I recommend moving to China? College admissions there are dependent on the Gaokao exam, which is an objective alternative to holistic admissions. But you'll have to deal the extreme stress of a single make-or-break examination and a pedagogy that focuses solely on test preparation. There a hundreds of excellent universities and colleges in America accessible to all students. Nobody has any right to admission to the 50 or so most selective ones. I happen to work for public R-1 university that has straight-forward admissions--if you graduate with a certain GPA, you're in. We're ranked in the top 200 and provide a great education for a good value. There are several other universities just like us. But the issue isn't simply getting a good education, it's that people feel entitled to go to the most selective schools. The crux of the problem is that they complain about the the very selectivity that they simultaneously crave. |
Anonymous
Maybe for public schools though likely not there either because of things like geographic representation, social mobility, etc. which are perfectly valid interests for a state govt. For privates, absolutely not. They are private institutions, not public utilities and they can admit whomever they want in line with their priorities as long as they aren't breaking the law (which they aren't). |
Anonymous
| It's fine, the very people complaining about it are exactly the kind of people the world needs less of. By rejecting their offspring we're all on the path to a brighter future. |
Anonymous
You are on DCUM. Please, stop making sense. |
Anonymous
My god, Georgia Tech should rescind its offer based on this tweet. |
Anonymous
Not our experience. Never heard a friend say this, and our book group talked about it all the time. We were friends from elementary school. |