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University of Chicago eliminates SAT/ACT requirement
The University of Chicago will no longer require ACT or SAT scores from U.S. students, sending a jolt through elite institutions of higher education as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.
Numerous schools, including well-known liberal arts colleges, have dropped or pared back testing mandates in recent years to bolster recruiting in a crowded market. But the announcement Thursday by the university was a watershed, cracking what had been a solid and enduring wall of support for the primary admission tests among the two dozen most prestigious research universities.
[...] U-Chicago is also expanding financial aid and scrapping in-person admission interviews, which had been optional. Instead, it will allow applicants to send in two-minute video pitches, in an effort to connect with a generation skilled at communicating via cellphone clips.
Also at USA Today and Inside Higher Ed.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Friday June 15 2018, @02:09PM (7 children)
Maybe I'm just getting old, but college used to be about furthering your academic abilities. It seems that college is now more about getting a four year course in social justice indoctrination, safe spaces, and me first entitlement training. Companies will not hire these people.
I weep for the future...
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @02:24PM
No, neo-Marxism says everyone is completely equal and IQ is not real. Some people are more equal than others though, eh comrade? Diversity is our strength, unless you're a white male?
In the future utopia, every citizen will weap tears of joy! [spectator.co.uk]
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @02:40PM (5 children)
No, it is you just getting old. The whole social justice indoctrination crap is just that, crap. Fox News red meat to push the idea that it really is the poor conservatives who are the oppressed minority.
However, for the vast majority of people who go, it really is less and less about furthering their academic abilities. It is a checklist one is compelled to feel they have to do to get a "good job". There has been more noise lately about the "German method" of education, namely that we should go back to when we used to have a stronger vocational track because a good deal of jobs and professions would be better served by people spending those four years in a relevant vocational education instead of a general college education.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @03:51PM (3 children)
Just a figment of our imagination? [sott.net] Why does the modern sociopath assume everyone is feeble minded enough to be gaslighted?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 15 2018, @09:08PM (2 children)
Fewer people applying to Evergreen proves your point how?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)
Fox News has indoctrinated the non-college educated to think that college is all about brainwashing and social indoctrination. And it has worked, because Fox News viewers do not have a brain to wash, got negative scores on the SAT, and have been proven to become more stupid that they were before they started watching Fox News.
But at least now our long-suffering intellectual conservatives will have a chance for their equally valid racist, misogynist, climate-denying, and Buick-buying ideas to be heard, and recognized for the insanity they are. Trump University!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @04:44AM
Sounds like whataboutism to me.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @12:14AM
Yes. Employers can't be bothered to evaluate someone if they don't have a piece of paper; they might have to spend a few bucks to do so, and we can't have that. So, jobs that did not require a degree mere decades ago now require one. They also can't be bothered to offer training to employees, and so have to unload that burden on the rest of society. The result is that colleges become increasingly corporatized and churn out countless losers who have no idea what they're doing, just so they can make a buck. But those imbeciles still get past most HR drones because, hey, if they have a piece of paper, then clearly they know what they're doing.
This is the real problem with colleges, not 'SJW indoctrination' crap.