On May 24, 12:34*pm, "ScottW" wrote:
"Jenn" wrote in message
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ScottW wrote:
On May 24, 9:02 am, Jenn wrote:
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ScottW wrote:
On May 23, 7:20 pm, Jenn wrote:
In article
outaudio.com,
"BretLudwig" wrote:
Higher education as a pyramid scheme.
"From The Atlantic, an anonymous article by a Professor X, who
teaches
English 101 at a couple of unselective colleges to people who can't
learn
to form coherent paragraphs:
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
I agree with some of this. Not everyone needs higher education. But
everyone deserves a shot at it if they have strong desire. Keep the
standards high,
I don't know why the standards of admission are so high that very
qualified US students can't find a seat in our universities while
we bring in 1000s of foreign students every year.
Huh? Where's the evidence of that?
Commissions paid for foreign students.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N26/college.html
*Do you know that USC is 20% foreign students?
http://www.iie.org/Content/Navigatio...ssReleases/New...
nt_of_Foreign_Students_in_the_U_S__Climbs_in_2005_ 06.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14034413
Yes, I'm aware of this, but it doesn't address your statement that
qualified U.S. students can't find a seat in our universities.
*Look at the huge gap between guaranteed admission and qualified
UC admission standards.
Why aren't all the qualified guaranteed admission?
For example
UC Santa Cruz denied over 7,000 qualified freshman applicants.
http://admissions.ucsc.edu/apply/froshNotAdmitted.cfm
"Were UC-eligible students denied admission?
Since we are a selective campus, the majority of our denied freshmen were
UC-eligible. "
Do you have any idea how many qualified and eligible students are
denied access to our service academies, 2pid? Or Harvard or Stanford
or Yale? Or *any* other competitive school?
Your argument appears to be that absolutely anybody who is qualified
and wants to go to UC Santa Cruz should be admitted.