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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.
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No other wealthy nation does this to its young people[/i].

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Ummm, you think it's bad here? Your fate is determined at AGE q0 in Germany.  If you don't make it into Gymnasium which prepares you to pass the Abitur, your only chances of going to.collrge is a high IQ test score. College is free, but only for the intellectually deserving

Furthermore, at age 10 if you are labeled a big giant dummy you get placed in Hauptschule and you only go to school until 9th grade and then enter the lowest od thr low vocational programs.

Despite what people will tell you it is very hard to advance outside your determined academic destiny. [/quote]

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