When I grew up in South Africa admission to college depended on, and only on, the grades you got in high school (assuming of course that you were white). No essays, no sports, no nothing
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This economically rational behavior is hard to acknowledge openly, however, without imperiling the (enormous) tax advantages universities enjoy as non-profit corporations (as well as the status they enjoy as disinterested sponsors of scholarship and learning.)
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Yes, I kind of give up. I cannot see any solution except a societal change. Again, when I was in undergrad: an English degree was s route to a high school teacher; sociology to a social worker; math to PhD rarely, or to math teacher. Etc. college wasn’t a route to status per se
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