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Topic: Entrance requirements for post-secondary institutions are ridiculous to the point of abusiveness.
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago#39,005
Requiring someone to maintain almost perfect academic performance all the way from grade 9 to the end of undergrad to have even a chance at getting admitted into, say, medical or law school, is honestly kinda monstrous. Why is it alright to bar someone permanently from an enormous opportunity just because they screwed something really minor up as a teenager?
Seriously, reduce entrance requirements by twenty percent, and then base admissions off of a broad combination of academic performance, extracurricular achievements, personality, so on so forth.
HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 46 seconds later[^][v]#519,796
Sounds like you were born the wrong race, OP.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 minutes after the original post[^][v]#519,799
@previous (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Even if you entirely remove race from the equation, the following conditions:
1. 90% in high school required for undergrad admission, and
2. 90% in undergrad required for postgraduate admission,
are almost comically brutal.
squeegee joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 9 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#519,802
> Requiring someone to maintain almost perfect academic performance all the way from grade 9 to the end of undergrad to have even a chance at getting admitted into, say, medical or law school, is honestly kinda monstrous. Why is it alright to bar someone permanently from an enormous opportunity just because they screwed something really minor up as a teenager? > > Seriously, reduce entrance requirements by twenty percent, and then base admissions off of a broad combination of academic performance, extracurricular achievements, personality, so on so forth.
riiiight, because i want my doctor to have been in Future Farmers of America and be a real affable guy, rather than a life-long academic who excels at rote memorization and has the ability to not fuck up in even minor ways.
Meta joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 15 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^][v]#519,806
I agree. Kids will have youthful indiscretions that shouldn't reflect badly on them as adults. Colleges should really only look at the last year of high school and entrance exams. Admission into medical school and law school is mainly so bad because it's so competitive. The supply of medical and law school admissions is deliberately restricted by the AMA and the ABA, respectively, at least in the USA in order to keep wages high in these professions.