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Even if it did happen, it would immediately become useless. What's the old adage? Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. Such a matrix
by Balgair 3y ago
Even if it did happen, it would immediately become useless. What's the old adage? Once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.
Such a matrix would only become a goal for those wanting to get their kids into schools. I have no doubt at all, you'd get a cottage industry of counselors that would plan out how to best maximize your kids' privileged scores to get in.
Sell your house to a relative at X months before admissions, find an ancestor of Y race on our special website at Z months before submission, claim a disability of ABC and take a SAT/ACT/FGH test under that disability, etc. You'll have a score of III with Stanford, a score of JJJ with Harvard, and a score of LLL with your safety school. Yadda yadda yadda, and here's the percent chances for each school.
Hell, with AI and all this jazz, this won't even cost all that much and be the purview of the upper-middle class. You could likely just buy that service for under $100 by 2040.
- ars 3y agoI read an article somewhere about parents "divorcing" before their kids goes to school so that he gets extra points on the admission sheet. They also "move" to a worse zip code for the same reason.
- zapdrive 3y agoIs there a list of zip codes considered worse by colleges?
- solardev 3y agoYeah, that's a good point :/