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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is much better than JMU and VCU. Now that  many schools are TO you need to be very careful about attending the will maintain it’s reputation over the next 10-20 years. Before schools went TO, there was a minimum bar for competency in order to be admitted, now there is not. The students at VT are much more capable on overage than JMU or VCU. Before TO admission  the 25-75 range for JMU SATs was 1120-1290 (65th-84th percentile SAT score). The 25-75 range for VT was 1180-1380.  (75th-94th percentile SAT scores). TO is going to destroy the value of  degrees from universities are not at least a VT or NCSU caliber because theses schools no longer have an accurate mechanism to filter our students who got straight As for having a pulse, but have room temp IQs. [/quote]

Got rejected by JMU, did ya? [/quote]

No, I  went to a more competitive university. Not knocking on JMU, I am just worried that college degrees are effectively becoming worthless unless the universities have a strict quality standards for students. The benefit of college is more the signaling value (of some level of competence) to employers and networking. Both of these benefits are diminished substantially with TO admissions and online learning. Especially now that we have AI that is fairly accurate for most coursework and answering test questions its becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate the people who are capable from the people who know almost nothing. I think we are quickly entering a world where diplomas outside of T100 universities will become almost worthless. [/quote]

Why 100 as an AI free signal? Some of the most notorious cheaters that DD knows are going to amazing schools [/quote]
Same here. Most notorious cheater is at UVA currently, but that doesn't mean she isn't smart. She is. Using t100 or t70 ensures at least a little bit of actual ability is at play vs. outside of that where all bets are off. Cheaters can't cheat on the SAT which is weighted/used more heavily at selective schools.[/quote]

Right.  You can’t cheat on the SAT but rich kids can spend $$$$ on test prep and end up with a score that doesn’t truly reflect their natural ability either[/quote]

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