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yes, who cares? when an institution plays such a huge role in society it should be forced to play by the rules that are beneficial to it. of columbia pictures wanted to play porn in the movies the feds would be involved. except that this is many times more destructive.

no, it's not the indignity of UMD that is the problem - it's the rat race created by the possibility of joining the harvard country club through merit. this sets the crazy race that starts in K for kids to get one of those slots where they can "make connections" to join the rich on wall street. this is all the more destructive because the rate race is not based on actual merit but rather a nebulous combination of achievements that keeps the opportunity dangling.

my solution would be to strip the title "university" and "college and even "school" - and obviously all federal grants of any kind - from every college which bases admission on anything else but grades and entrance exams. not sats and similar crap should be allowed. then those country clubs can admit whom they want for the reason they want to create whatever member body they want.[/quote]

It's only a rat race because you decided it is.

You haven't answered the question if private employers should be required to assign jobs by test scores.

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no I didn’t decide that - my kids will go to college abroad. Not in a million years would i allow them through this insanity. nevertheless the system is extremely destructive for American society. It doesn’t really matter whose fault is that - just what can be done about it. These so called elite instructions of learning - in reality hedge funds and country clubs with a smidgen of scholarship - needs to be drastically reformed and quickly.

employers should not be required to hire by test scores, except for maybe government. There are jobs that need to be done. Universities merely issue certificates and the way the system is set now these certificates are misleading.[/quote]

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