hereβs my proposal, itβs pretty simple: college admissions can still happen, just... without college attached to it
incoming freshmen take all the money that was going to be spent on tuition and pool it to buy mansions together and study whatever they want
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they can feel free to decide to only mansion it up with other peeps accepted to the same college or not itβs up to them
i had this idea 5 or so years ago but itβs looking a lot closer to the overton window these days
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Do you know how many books, private instructors, flights, and parties you can get for $50,000?
And you won't be discriminated against for being Asian! twitter.com/darrenrovell/sβ¦
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this is of course an excellent time to remind everybody to check out βs The Case Against Education which i sometimes forget not everyone knows about:
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This might sound like snark or bragging or whatever, but based on what I've read, it is literally correct that the "I got into this exclusive university" is the actual source of the improved income in many industries, even if you don't attend (and don't pay). twitter.com/twobitidiot/stβ¦
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MIT opencourseware has had video lectures, problem sets, etc. available from MIT classes, for free, for years now, and that fact hasnβt lowered the perceived value of attending MIT one iota
ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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I think this undervalues the diploma earned and access to faculty, facilities, and events that a university can provide. Admittedly the facilities part isn't there right now, but the diploma, faculty, and some form of events will still be there. Still likely worth it for many.
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With the money they have, they can directly hire professors to lecture them
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Students form their own admissions committees, decide whether to require SAT scores and application essays, interviews.
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extremely based, hope they had fun
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