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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree. The way colleges conduct admissions adversely affects mental health and diminishes high school learning.

Their practices may or may not be legal. Their practices if revealed may hurt their brand. I don’t think these are good reasons to allow them to hide their practices from the public they serve.

Colleges are non profit not profit businesses. Colleges receive substantial state and or federal funding which comes from tax payers. They aren’t even self sustaining non profits. Colleges also market widely and collect sizable application fees.

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May I recommend moving to China? College admissions there are dependent on the Gaokao exam, which is an objective alternative to holistic admissions. But you'll have to deal the extreme stress of a single make-or-break examination and a pedagogy that focuses solely on test preparation.

There a hundreds of excellent universities and colleges in America accessible to all students. Nobody has any right to admission to the 50 or so most selective ones. I happen to work for public R-1 university that has straight-forward admissions--if you graduate with a certain GPA, you're in. We're ranked in the top 200 and provide a great education for a good value. There are several other universities just like us. [b]But the issue isn't simply getting a good education, it's that people feel entitled to go to the most selective schools. The crux of the problem is that they complain about the the very selectivity that they simultaneously crave.[/b][/quote]

This is the most sensible and insightful post. It describes the agitator of this thread perfectly. We have such a great range of schools here in the US, some with by the numbers admissions, some with more holistic admissions, and a vast range of selectivity. All of this avoids the test-grind pedagogy that some other countries suffer from, and as a consequence I would argue that while no admissions system is perfect, our college and graduate education system works better at promoting innovation, which is why international students want to study here. Or at least they used to. [/quote]

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