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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For medical schools, there are weed-out classes.

For elite colleges, why can't we have the same?  For example, students are required to take Advanced Literature/writing in humanities, and Advanced Calculus in stem.

Top 20 colleges would require A or A+ in both the pass muster.  Top 50 B+, top 100 B, so on and so forth.  [/quote]

We have that…it’s called AP tests.  Colleges could require you have a 5 in AP BC, though I guess everyone would have to track to taking by junior year or they could have contingent acceptances like UK schools.

This is literally what at least University of Toronto requires for US kids applying for certain STEM programs.

They could take this approach but don’t.  Again, if nearly all colleges are public and essentially nationally controlled you can implement something like this.[/quote] States can do this, but so far they haven't. Maybe because the only state with such a selective flagship for this to make sense is California.

Also, requiring AP scores would be an accessibility issue and a huge enhancement of the monopoly CB already has.[/quote]

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