I worked in university admissions and this makes sense: provate schools inflate predicted grades, state schools often predict lower than students attainhttps://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1161542378303426562 …
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Warwick didn’t interview kids from deprived neighbourhoods/schools, just accepted them, ditto York. Kids from poor schools perform far better than privately schooled kids with the same grades.
Anyway, it wasa proper joy telling students with better than anticipated grades they could come to Warwick, but the whole system is currently dysfunctional. Replace it with an algorithm, use attained grades.
We had the same when I worked for an exam board. The wealthier parents would ring and pay for remarks. Then scream down the phone at you if their child did not get the grades they believed they deserved.
Every time. And I had to point out that legally I couldn’t speak to them, only their child.
Why do we need elite undergraduate universities in the first place? Germany and Netherlands get on fine without them. I can see the point of elite research institutions, but undergraduate universities? Just seems one more way of preventing social mobility.
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