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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Well, the idea should be to reduce the number who are not prepared - to have admissions standards that do all they can to insure that those who are admitted are indeed prepared. The top 10% system doesn't even pretend to do that.
eta - the top 10% system seems to be a variation of throw it on the wall and see what sticks. I don't think it serves the students' best interests, and I don't think it is in the best interest of the university.
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You may be right, but I think schools have sort of given up trying to tell who is most objectively qualified, and since way more kids than they could possibly admit probably meet whatever predictive standard they use to determine who might flunk out, they just need a system to reduce the total number.
I understand what you are saying though. It seems that colleges could make much better decisions about the preparation and qualification of the students they accept.
I may have mentioned this before since it's one of my pet peeves. Every so often in Georgia the colleges, especially the less selective ones, want to give the high schools grief about the number of kids with who need remedial classes. What is so irritating about it is that anyone with even a passing familiarity with high schools in Georgia could tell you that a B average from certain schools means absolutely nothing in terms of academic preparation. Because we have the HOPE grant which gives a full tuition scholarship to any kid who graduates from a Georgia public high school with a B average, as long as the kid maintains the B average in college, at some high schools a B is almost the default grade. However, there's no way that kids at some of those schools are really doing B level college preparatory work. So, from a high school perspective, you just want to respond to the complaining about the lack of preparation with, "yeah, you admitted that kid with the data about how other kids from that high school fared in your program; how can you possibly try to blame the high schools generally for your failure to make tough admissions decisions?"
ETA: sorry for the craziness of some of my sentences. I'm kind of tired. I'll look at it tomorrow and see what I can do.
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