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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
Yeah, but there's currently a big gap between the lack of perfection I think you have in mind and the level that a lot of kids are at at the end of high school.
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fair enough - even the student who needs the most help at an Ivy/highly selective school would be doing better with their writing than the best student at a less selective/community college.
i know these classes we are speaking of. my brother attends a community college that has these remedial classes, that are supposed to cover all those things he shouldve learned in HS.
it would be unfair for him to be in a regular four-year institution and fail an intro writing class knowing from the beginning that he couldnt do it. maybe this is the thinking of colleges that offer these remedial/non-credit courses serving to play catch-up.
and schools also offer remedial math courses to catch students up on HS math (hell, even middle school math, like percentages, basic trig and geometry). to pass calculus, you need to know this stuff cold and i bet even average students could benefit from this.
i think this shows that colleges are aware of that gap.