A Plan to Kill High School Transcripts … and Transform College Admissions

Ynotgo
Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:25:30 +0000

I think this plan shows a lot of naiveté about the wide range of differences in high schools and in high school students.

Many public school teachers can’t be bothered to get to know their students well enough to rate them on characteristics like these. Our elementary teachers graded from 1 to 4 on similar competency-based skills. But, they only had 24-28 students. Most public HS teachers have ~35*5 or more students. Our HS English teachers for the most part don’t have time to read the essays they assign.

And, not all students take all classes at their HS. A lot of our local students take a number of classes at the local community college. My son took courses from 4 colleges during HS. So, submitting transcripts to colleges where he applied was a pain (and expen$ive). But, there’s no way he was going to get a descriptive response about the skills he gained in a 600-student Linear Algebra class at our local UC.