Entitled and demanding behavior from deeply incompetent undergraduates is also increasingly common at big state universities. We might be tempted to blame a co

Entitled and demanding behavior from deeply incompetent undergraduates is also increasingly common at big state universities. We might be tempted to blame a corrupt admissions process for that as well, but it's so widespread that it seems more like a cultural shift. I suppose it could be both -- admissions offices unable or unwilling to resist cultural changes, with the result that academic preparedness is no longer valued in the admissions process.