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Each college admissions model is derived, at least in part from the U.S. News model, and each one is a mini-WMD. These models lead students and their parents to run frantic circles and spend obscene amounts of money. And they’re opaque.
The victims are the vast majority of Americans, poor and middle-class families. It tilts against the needy students, -pushing them down a path toward poverty.
— May 30, 2021 04:22AM
Each college admissions model is derived, at least in part from the U.S. News model, and each one is a mini-WMD. These models lead students and their parents to run frantic circles and spend obscene amounts of money. And they’re opaque.
The victims are the vast majority of Americans, poor and middle-class families. It tilts against the needy students, -pushing them down a path toward poverty.
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I am very interested in the topics of this book. I have often wondered what happened between my generation (graduated high school in 1990) and my children’s generation (high school grads in 2015 and 2017) that changed the cost of college so much that a public school teacher and machinist could barely scrape by to send a couple kids to college. The chapter, Arms Race, sure helps explain!
— May 30, 2021 04:16AM
