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[quote=Anonymous][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]

So what happens when the orchestra doesn't have any violinists, or the football team doesn't have a quarterback or the chem department doesn't have any org chem students? Or when the student body is 80% lesbians?[/quote]

Well it shouldn’t matter if at the end the goal is just academic achievement performance. Seems like lottery is the only way to stop the scapegoating.[/quote]

There is no college or university in the US who has a mission of rewarding "academic achievement performance" - their missions are to create communities of learning which are generally predicated on varying viewpoints, perspectives and lived lives. A lottery will undermine that mission.[/quote]

+1000

It is only state schools that guarantee admission to the Top X% of the HS grads in their state (of their individual HS class).  And even then, they do not fill the entire class that way.

90% of students must be in state at UTexas Austin.  75% of those in-state slots must be guaranteed, so 25% of the instate slots are open to other instate students.  The remaining 10% overall is typically OOS, as who doesn't want OOS tuition flowing.  But that is about as close as you will come to a lottery. Which is fine for in-state schools to do, if they wish.  Most states have a much smaller percentage guaranteed if at all[/quote]

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