Are Colleges "Dumbing Down" for Low-effort Students?

<p>yeah, if you do remotely well you’ll get letters from all over the place. I got places like MIT and Cal Tech that I probably had a 2% chance of getting in to.</p>

<p>Michigan is actually kinda doing the opposite of dumbing down, but only by default. We switched to the common app so there are more applicants + they want a smaller class size = lower acceptance rate. We still may be dumbing down though so it might just cancel out.</p>