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The current situation is that colleges have become less predictable in whom they accept, in part due to test-optional admissions. It's not so much that college admission is more selective across the board, although it has certainly become so at the top universities and colleges, but that students are forced to widen their search and apply to more schools to ensure admission at one of them. And tuition increases every year, faster than salaries can keep up.

And that's a very bad thing. It puts the burden on the student and their family to navigate an extremely complex, non-transparent, process. Colleges and universities profit from the murkier admissions criteria ("holistic" and "equitable" my foot) to cherry-pick the class that suits them that year, to sculpt their brand and image. Profit, in the form of reputation and money, is the end goal, at the expense of individual students.

[b]No other wealthy nation does this to its young people.
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No, but their way is worse. Only the top 10% on one test will get into college in some Asian countries. That's it. If you didn't feel well on test day or were tired or stressed, oh well. I'd much prefer our way where there are schools for every student. My kid is having a pretty low-stress high school experience because we are realistic. He will end up at a SLAC surrounded by students who didn't kill themselves trying to get into top 20 schools. The rankings I care about are which schools retain the highest number of students, 4 year graduation rate and happiest students. [/quote]

Completely agree. In the UK, you’ve got one shot. The GCSE’s. And if you don’t, at the age of 16, place in A levels Math, you are out of the running for numerous university degrees/career paths…. You can’t do engineering, computer science, biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, accounting and business (at their top unis….)… Your path is determined at the age of 16! Their system is way worse than ours. At least our kids/adults have entry paths into ANY career from multiple approaches… Community college, 4 year college, re-entering as an adult learner, switching careers, a second bachelors.  Educate yourself PP before you make such false claims.[/quote]

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