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Reply to "If you graduated college in the 90s/00s which schools shocked you with their change in status/competiveness?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the T15-50 today. All. Of. Them. These are schools that had 30-70 percent acceptance rates when we went. Something doesn’t add up though. Students are statistically underperforming in HS compared to our generation, Tests have been dumbed down, grades have been inflated…. And yet the kids at my DCs college (pick any of the ones mentioned already) are seriously smart and driven. So are the top 5 percent of students that much better than the median? Has the bar really been raised for them and not others? [/quote] Nope. I teach at an R1 institution that is selective beyond anything it could possibly have imagined when I was applying to college thirty-five years ago, and my students aren't anywhere near where my cohort was when I was their age, in terms of their analytical abilities or capacity to work independently. They are disturbingly concrete in their thinking. [/quote] Your candor is appreciated.[/quote]
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