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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this a real thread or comedy? Teacher here. I have not laughed this hard in a long time.
So many snarky posters and this includes you, OP.

My advice - just give up on this assignment. If it was a YouTube video assignment, it sounds relatively minor. Who cares? Keep moving forward [/quote]

I understand you might not think this particular assignment is important, but the current environment for college admissions is incredibly competitive. It’s not just about one assignment—it’s about maintaining the kind of grades necessary to even have a shot at schools these days. For example, in Virginia, you need above a 4.0 GPA just to be competitive at in-state schools like UVA and Virginia Tech, which is crazy.

I think part of the issue is that colleges, especially Ivy League schools, haven’t made an effort to expand their acceptance rates. Personally, I believe their rates should be over 50%, and they could do that by expanding campuses and using online courses to reach a larger student pool. Technology has opened up so many opportunities for scalable education, and at a minimum, in-state schools should be leading the way in making higher education more accessible. There should be a mandate that schools must expand their capacity and maintain a 50% acceptance rate, or they risk losing state funding. The pressure on students would be far less intense if we saw more of an effort to expand these opportunities.[/quote]

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