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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok can someone please square the circle

Schools are harder to get into than ever before yet we are hearing from faculty that there is a crisis of basic competence in the student body.

What is going on? [/quote]

It is mainly the bottom group that has competence problems, at elites. The average student is much smarter and more prepared than 30 yrs ago. Speaking of elite university, as a professor who has taught at various levels including regional publics up to t10. Currently at a top school: TO was not a good idea, led to more academic problems, but that is a small group compared to the whole. Many peer institutions came to the same conclusion as ours. Regional publics get a sizable proportion that would not have attended college 30 yrs ago and many of them drop out after failing classes. Those colleges have such a wide range of student competence as to make it impossible to teach to the level the top 1/4 need. Professors burn out is real with pressure from administration to pass more students by making the courses easier and easier. These schools need to fill seats but many who fill them are not cut out for basic college classes. 
That is not the problem at top schools. The problem is though they are almost all quite smart, most could be top researchers or professors if they wanted, but they cannot all get As and they all want them to the point of mental distress, never having made less than an A in the past, it terrifies them[/quote]

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