Anonymous wrote:The point is selective colleges should be unselective. Already unselective ones are ok.

Lol this makes no sense.

The point is selective colleges should be unselective. Already unselective ones are ok.

OP UDC and VCU offer exactly what you’re looking for.

Anonymous wrote:Allow anyone with minimum requirements to be admitted. Then make the coursework rigorous enough where it’s meaningful and you have to work hard to pass. Otherwise you get kicked out.

This is the French/German/Dutch way, and it’s the most fair way to avoid the advantaged/disadvantaged divide and gaming of the admissions system.

Yes, and at 18 you find your own apt with strangers in the town or commute, cook your own food, line up your own socialization opportunities & perhaps find a part-time job at a restaurant in town.

Still interested?

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

Wouldn’t it just be easier to rename Mason “UVA-Fairfax”? Problem solved.

This. Just call the big schools "UVA-[city name]" and the smaller ones (UMW, CNU, etc) "W&M @ city name." Problem solved, everyone can go to "UVA" or "W&M".

Anonymous wrote:Radford & NoVa CC admit like European schools pretty much with grades being the only thing that matter.

+1

OP? What say you?

Radford & NoVa CC admit like European schools pretty much with grades being the only thing that matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

What is the point of a college if everyone gets in??

To produce an educated populace?

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

Considering the number of TA strikes we’ve seen at public universities over the past school year, that’s not as easy as you may think.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

Wouldn’t it just be easier to rename Mason “UVA-Fairfax”? Problem solved.

In order for a European model to work here, we would need federal not local control of schools and their standards, beginning at kindergarten. That will not happen in the US - our model is too States-centric for that. In Europe, national not local standards prevail. It’s akin to the social compact in many European countries regarding pensions and health care - they “work” (although Americans who are used to private health insurance would possibly not like the standards of care) because certain truisms are at play: everyone is employed, and works until age 65. You have to start at the ground up, not layer on top.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

What is the point of a college if everyone gets in??

Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

And housing them? In the college town of the school my kid attends, there are enforced ordinances dictating where students are allowed to rent in the town. Student housing permits come with the deed of a house, and no new permits have been granted since 2000. As you can imagine there are frequent “housing crisis” student protests at this school.

Anonymous wrote:Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.

They can build larger lecture halls and hire more TAs

Where are all these thousands of kids taking these classes? Like, physically, where. I don't think they have the capacity to do 500+ person classes.