I agree about using an entrance exam over prerequisites. Depending on the specifics, I’d favor an entrance project over/alongside an entrance exam—basically a portfolio-like construct of work in the field (anything from solved sets of physics problems to github pages to artwork could count).
The thing with price disclosure is that, in order to facilitate charging wealthier students more, colleges are acting to obscure how much they cost. I understand it as a part of trading off a sacred value (education) versus a mundane one (money), and thus suboptimal.
Perhaps it makes more sense to have a cutoff, with students who can afford it paying, and those who can’t being entirely supported by the institution’s endowment (at least in cases where the institution has a large endowment)?
I agree about using an entrance exam over prerequisites. Depending on the specifics, I’d favor an entrance project over/alongside an entrance exam—basically a portfolio-like construct of work in the field (anything from solved sets of physics problems to github pages to artwork could count).
The thing with price disclosure is that, in order to facilitate charging wealthier students more, colleges are acting to obscure how much they cost. I understand it as a part of trading off a sacred value (education) versus a mundane one (money), and thus suboptimal.
Perhaps it makes more sense to have a cutoff, with students who can afford it paying, and those who can’t being entirely supported by the institution’s endowment (at least in cases where the institution has a large endowment)?