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A credit-based system looking to optimize return would reflect the likelihood of such students actually graduating and getting good jobs. If the problem is tha
by morgante 10y ago
A credit-based system looking to optimize return would reflect the likelihood of such students actually graduating and getting good jobs.
If the problem is that minority students have difficulty achieving at the level of white students, let's focus on that. I don't think it's very helpful that we saddle these students up with loans but then they don't even end up graduating. Instead of forcing lenders to lend to bad credit risks, let's come up with ways to support minority students so they aren't credit risks. I personally would be happy to invest in minority students studying CS, for example.
And yes, it will be somewhat painful in the short term. We'll have to confront the reality that lending to students with low SAT scores to study esoteric subjects is maybe not a good idea. Perhaps it would even encourage such students to not waste their time and money on bad degrees.