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> "The government would come down hard on any school which says "you pass all the enrollment criteria, but we have a nagging feeling you won't complete the degr
by superuser2 13y ago
> "The government would come down hard on any school which says "you pass all the enrollment criteria, but we have a nagging feeling you won't complete the degree so we're not letting you in."
No it wouldn't. Admission to selective schools isn't based on criteria, it's competitive among the other applicants in the pool for a limited number of slots. Counselors routinely state that the vast majority of their applicants are academically qualified; students are selected based on interestingness (communicated through essays & recommendations), extracurricular talents, race, gender, and other factors. Sometimes even virtuosos are rejected because there are already enough virtuosos with that particular talent in the university.
As far as I know, it is only very low-end schools in the US that run admission solely off of standards.
- jlarocco 13y agoIt's not really about high end schools. Harvard, Yale, and MIT can turn down anybody they want because they have a million overly qualified candidates. They can be selective and still fill their all of classes ten times over. But if tiny community colleges start turning people away when they have half empty classrooms, there will be a lot of negative press.
- superuser2 13y agoBut it isn't about tiny community colleges, it's about for-profit schools, right? They could probably figure out how to sell it as "raising the bar," talk about providing a more individualized education, ride the negative press as actually increasing the value of their degrees, etc.
- ctdonath 13y agoEnrollment is way down. Spin only goes so far.