NPR College Admissions Story

skrlvr
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:13:37 +0000

If we NCers are so doggone smart, how come large areas of our state have not managed to expand their economic bases beyond dying industries like textiles, furniture, and tobacco?



Maybe it’s because universities are filled with tons of high stats kids with good grades and test scores, who think that the greatest thing to do is to study latin and medieval Irish history, and the kid with slightly lower stats but with great new ideas, good business sense and lots of initiative didn’t get a scholarship and thus couldn’t go and couldn’t complete his/her education.

OK, yes, that’s snarky. But can’t you now see why there might be a reason not simply to do everything by test score and grades?