College Admissions Cheating Racket

[*michaelsean*]

(03-14-2019, 10:19 AM)GMDino Wrote: Our daughter didn't go to college.  She got her certificate at the tech school with her high school and got a job.  Our son will go in two years, but he has opted for the local campus to save money on travel and room & board.  But he isn't stressing about it.  He knows he will get the education he needs for his career path.

Long ago I told them both that college isn't for everyone and that a skill can be better.  I also told them they didn't have to be number one in their class and involved to the gills to get into a good college but that I would rather they learned something and tried their best and did things they enjoyed in high school rather than kill themselves over it.  One of the few things they listened to me about!  

That some colleges now(I graduated almost 30 years ago) are this ridiculous to even apply for is sad to me.  I didn't even need my SAT to get in back then.  the school I applied to (I applied to the one school I wanted to go to) only looked at SATs if they have an overload of applicants.  I took it anyway, but even that I didn't go to the training classes and all that crap.  I suppose higher education is just ANOTHER aspect of American society that has gotten out of hand due to the money to be made by some.

My son is doing some ACT training, but it's basically because that's how a lot of the scholarships/grants are awarded.  We didn't do it with my daughterand she didn't score too well.  But she did graduate cum laude which shows you a little something about the tests.  My son either way will most assuredly score higher, maybe much higher, on the test and will probably not graduate with honors.  A lot of college has to do with the work you put in.  I remember she said she was at the library studying on a Sunday from 9am to 7 pm.  I didn't study that much in a semester.