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[quote=Anonymous]"Colleges have always found a way to adapt and identify the students that they feel with succeed and contribute at their institution."

The colleges have adapted fine and will have no problem adapting as the rest of the schools make this (welcomed) change.

The problem is that students and even more so their parents, haven't adapted.

There have been some who recognize that taking more rigorous classes can matter but I have seen this taken to extremes that no college will ever care about.

Having slightly more rigor than the other top students at your school is worthless.  Just like standards based grading, tippy top colleges judge your stats on standards as well.

You just need enough rigor to show that you can do the work.  Once you have met that standard, you need to do something to turn the ad coms' heads.

The ad coms' don't want to create or select stressed students.  They want to select students who can do their work really easily.

So easily that they have the time (and more importantly the inclination) to be excellent at something else besides school. [/quote]

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