Texas top 10% HS admissions challenged (again)

[missypie]

Besides life skiils, I think high schools should offer some "future small businessmen/women" courses. I mean, a person has greater income potential if he or she can run his or her own auto body shop or plumbing company vs. being someone's assistant or employee. It would be great to teach a bit of accounting/bookkeeping, payroll, labor/emploment and immigration law, consumer awareness, etc.

[07DAD]

missypie:

That could be made available at the HS level provided within "free" public education, or much of that is available to those who have that ambition at local community colleges.

[xiggi]

They should consider doing what CA does... the top 12% is determined by a combination of GPA and SAT (and I think SAT IIs, but less so). These are formally or informally converted into points. Points are then ADDED for: -1st generation to college, underperforming high school, single parent homes, etc. The state of CA has the advantage of nine campus, with Berkeley being the most difficult to get into, followed very closely by UCLA, then a big gap to UCSD, then a small gap to UCSB, UCI and UCD, then a gap to UCSC, than a big gap to UCR and UCM.

So there is a lot of room in CA's treatment to find room for the top 12% according to their ability and life challenges (but not race per se, which was outlawed some years back).

They should consider doing what CA does... ? They as in Texas should consider doing what CA does...

To that I can only say, "God, have mercy on Texas if we need a lesson from California." It only takes a quick look at the direction the overall education system has taken in California in the past decades to realize how totally inept and clueless the UC has been and how it goes downhill from the UC down to the K-12.

Texas night have its share of problems but it surely doesn't need California's "example" of racial segregation and absolute lunacy in college admission --not to mention the fiscal crisis that is looming at the flagship institutions.

[Maymom1]

At least everyone knows the rules to the game in Texas. The "Ivy League" admissions process? Well that is only for the priviledged to know and the rest to wonder.

[fabrizio]

Texas night have its share of problems but it surely doesn't need California's "example" of racial segregation and absolute lunacy in college admission --not to mention the fiscal crisis that is looming at the flagship institutions.

Racial segregation? I think you mean racial imbalance, which is not racial segregation.

[Narcissa]

not even ivies have such a cap. this is dumb