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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How would people feel about a lottery for college admissions? So for example: everyone with 1500 plus and 4.0 gets a lottery ticket to a top school. That seems to be the only way to solve all the angst. Otherwise things will continue to be legislated. [/quote]

This is often suggested, and it is very very silly.

You are suggesting that colleges don't get to build their class and choose their students, and that students don't get to choose the college they apply to, or at best only get to apply to one.

Worse for the colleges, worse for the student, and somehow that is more "fair"?  By pulling names out of a hat?

I suggest you rethink this idea.[/quote]

If colleges are telling the truth about having multiple qualified applicants for every seat, why should they care? [/quote]

Because under your system they won't get that.

Because if they thought pulling names out of a hat was the best way to do it, that is what they would do al;ready.

Because they know that a thoughtful selection process is the best way to increase likelihood of good results, which is why a thoughtful selection process is used for every college, job, program, selective club, etc on the planet.[/quote]

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