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>For people who want to go to college purely for rigorous academic study with the brightest young academic minds, this is going to be a shift. Will it? The aca
by bsanr2 7y ago
>For people who want to go to college purely for rigorous academic study with the brightest young academic minds, this is going to be a shift.
Will it? The academic cheating scandal and what we know about legacy admission tells us that many prestigious colleges very decidedly don't put pure academic rigor above all else. I've heard tell that getting into Harvard and surviving its social scene is harder than actually graduating from it. Anecdata, but of all the big-name schools, I've only heard of a handful that deliver on their "chew you up if you're not intellectually ready" reputations: MIT, CalArts, several UCs... That's about it.
I'm of the opinion that the radical and purposeful shift we should be moving towards is one of parity in rigor and support for all students passed a certain level of demonstrated competence. Then, lottery.
- tnecniv 7y agoYou might not fail out of a lot of big name schools that like to keep their graduation rate high, but you'll come out with a boatload of C's. You may have a degree, but that's not a great outcome, and why go to school for four years if you aren't learning effectively? I know that people say that it's a networking opportunity, but most of my friends that got good jobs they were happy with out of college were the ones that worked hard. The ones who just floated by continued to float by.
- bsanr2 7y agoBecause the networking thing is real, and often supercedes one's grades or demonstrated competence in a job market based primarily on networking.