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> And even then there's no guarantee you'll get in. > yet when universities start taking steps to help reduce that they start kvetching Your argument is hard
by ajcp 2mo ago
> And even then there's no guarantee you'll get in.
> yet when universities start taking steps to help reduce that they start kvetching
Your argument is hard to follow. It is prohibitively hard, to the point of being unhealthy, to getting admitted to the University of Michigan. Okay, but how does this policy solve for or address that in any way? Wouldn’t the solution be to increase capacity to meet demand, thus relieving those pressures that create the conditions for them to admit young adults that are suffering from health issues that the universities admissions policies itself precipitated?
- alephnerd 2mo agoIt gives students one semester of breathing room that allows them to chill out and concentrate on education for the sake of education. And UMich Ann Arbor is already massive - 8,000 students enroll a year.
- ajcp 2mo agoBut, again, the University of Michigan’s own admissions policies created the need for the students to “chill out”. Is this not treating a symptom of the problem, not the motivator? Also 32,000 undergrads is not “massive” by any measurement[0], especially when accounting for the population of the state of Michigan, much less the broader United States. O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_public_university_campuses_by_enrollment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_public_u...
- steele 2mo agoMichigan admissions create opportunities for students that found success within the challenging conditions. Umich treats the problem by educating future policy makers about those systems. Then occasionally yields to powerful lobby groups and clandestine operations of fascist administration.
- ajcp 2mo agoNot gonna lie, really had me going in the first half there.