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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the solution.

Set a filter with X GPA and Y SAT scores.  Throw all people who make it into the pool and use a random computer algorithm to pick people.

Totally the fairest way to choose. All of the extraneous stuff is nonsense.  Schools should decide where they want to set the bar for quality, then have a completely race agnostic system for selection.  Drawing straws is fair after the cutoff is met.[/quote]

Then you just deal with an overcrowded CS/ENG dept and nobody in the English dept?  So much more does (and should ) go into selecting a freshman class[/quote]

It really doesn't take a slide ruler or advanced calculus to figure this out.

Fill out application with random assigned number that kids your name and identity.  Select top 3 choices for major.  Input GPA/SAT. Done.

No fluff. No legacies. No identities.  Randomly pick people who meet a cutoff for GPA/SAT. You can include parameters for random selection based on major choice and limits for capacity.

Students get accept or reject letter stating which majors they're admitted to.  This is a minor problem.  [/quote]

That is ridiculous.[/quote]

They really need to just apply to European schools (or many asian countries as well) who you take a test, score high enough you get in[/quote]

Maybe, that’s why foreign schools are now ranked higher than US universities in technical fields like engineering.  They’re admitting the best and brightest abroad and not based on flimsy ID baskets.[/quote]

True.  Look at US News best global engineering school rankings.  Even scarier is the fact that many of China’s engineering schools in the world’s T25 or T50 don’t even belong to their Ministry of Education—they belong to their Ministry of Defense.  Including world’s #5, Harbin, which is ranked just below world’s #4, MIT.  It’s a military technical university.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/engineering

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Yup.

Americans are oblivious to how fast they're falling behind in technical fields.[/quote]

We get it, Americans are slow and stupid, and only you and your kind belong in American colleges.

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If this is how you feel, why do you want to go to our colleges so much? [/quote]

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