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Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process

• wolverine876 3y ago
  > In what sane world do we sort people — often for life — based on their ability to be teacher-pleasers from age 15 to 18? This sort of thoughtless dismissal undermines the value of articles for me. I have had enough for a lifetime; the Internet has effectively infinite amounts of it. Brooks can think more deeply than that and instead chooses cheap inflammatory appeal and wasting our time.
• paulpauper 3y ago
  In 2018, the organizational psychologist Adam Grant wrote a powerful essay for The Times making the point that “academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.” According to people with degrees. They always make this argument after becoming successful . try without collage.
  • wolverine876 3y ago
    I agree generally - the people who say college has no value are generally the ones with degrees and with the privilege to send their kids (any time someone says that, ask if their kids are going to college). But per the article, Grant claims to have research and data. I wouldn't be so quick to disimiss it. One weakness (perhaps addressed in the article) is that life is so much more than career. While important, it's not even the most important thing among many. Education - knowledge; reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, and learning skills - is valuable for almost everything in life. This sort of reductionism - of education to money-making - assumes the extreme anti-intellectual arguments are true. Ironically, that kind of rhetorical attack - building your claim into the assumptions - is a sophisticated method used by those trained in the humanities, and recognized (hopefully) by those who study the humanities.