Nice example of modern complexity in public arrangements. Colleges need objective-seeming reasons to admit only the people they want. It looks bad if they just arbitrarily pick the richest, most attractive, and sports-revenue-generating-ist.
To avoid this, they futz with rankings of feeder schools, who cooperate by giving the right mix of grades to the right people to make the numbers work out. And there’s even a bit of merit in there—the best students do tend to score higher.
Without the merit and tests, it’ll be interesting to see if the whole thing collapses.
Nice example of modern complexity in public arrangements. Colleges need objective-seeming reasons to admit only the people they want. It looks bad if they just arbitrarily pick the richest, most attractive, and sports-revenue-generating-ist.
To avoid this, they futz with rankings of feeder schools, who cooperate by giving the right mix of grades to the right people to make the numbers work out. And there’s even a bit of merit in there—the best students do tend to score higher.
Without the merit and tests, it’ll be interesting to see if the whole thing collapses.