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That's why I despise the American college exceptionalism.

Everywhere else, students are accepted on academic merit, with thresholds for grades and/or exams, which universities tweak for international students with different high school systems.

This makes the most sense, because universities remain places of higher learning, and judging based on extra-curriculars that don't have standardized norms makes comparing students impossible.

So at least in other countries, you know where you are. You're not messed around and have hopes dashed after waiting for months. As soon as you know your exam results, you also know where you're getting in.

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There are FAR more qualified students than seats. This part gets passed over way too many heads like yours.

Universities such as Harvard, standard, NYU, etc refuse to expand their seats in over 40+ years even though our population has rapidly increased over half a century.
That alone makes us different. [/quote]

Yep.  They keep taking our tax dollars, building fancy crap we don't need, care about, or benefit from,  bend us over, and laugh all the way to the bank.  And fools like you call it 'exceptionalism' and defend it.   :roll: [/quote]

Gosh, if only there were other colleges....  it's so bad there are only a few and if you can't attend those you don't get an education.

/sarcasm of course[/quote]

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