tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post7525842475067575134..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Radical proposal for college admissionsAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-80099653285583090622007-03-20T02:40:00.000+05:302007-03-20T02:40:00.000+05:30While I agree with the premise (that there are min...While I agree with the premise (that there are miniscule differences between the "top tier" of students and that both students and admissions officers spend much too much time agonizing over them), the crux of the argument shouldn't come in a statistical determination of whether or not randomly-selected students perform equally as well as the "chosen ones" <I>while in the classroom</I>.<BR/><BR/>Of course the majority of these smart kids are going to do well, wherever they are placed (barring personal crises as mentioned in the text).<BR/><BR/>The real test should be where these kids are after a few years out of college. People don't hop on the Ivy bandwagon just because they think it'll get their kid a better education; they believe that it will provide them with the maximum number of opportunities <I>after</I> the undergrad experience. Networking and the like.<BR/><BR/>If this is true and can be proven, then it makes the lottery system unfortunately unfair. At the same time there's plenty of evidence that the current system is specious at best and may be equally unfair. <BR/><BR/>What to do?Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13875686468126571113noreply@blogger.com