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
I would maintain, again, that at the heart of the whole business is simply money. Is higher education a public good, like the interstate highway system? Or is it a luxury? For the past forty years, state and federal budgets have implicitly defined higher education as a luxury.
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In response, universities have become ever more like luxury brands, and ever more dependent upon income from alumni donations; students become ever more like customers, and customers (especially the wealthiest ones) are always right; if you have your hand out, you can't moralize.
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I think it's all quite simple, really. We get what we pay for, and reap what we sow. By failing to support higher education, we've left its support to the rich. And the rich aren't disinterested; they demand (and get) preferences. And these grease a slippery slope of corruption.
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