<p>“… What if we allowed Google to manage the college application process? What if you discovered the best college for you by relying on Yelp-like reviews written by actual students? What if better estimates of net costs and admissions decisions were available from your desktop? In short, what if admissions—a process already social in the old sense of the word—became, well, social?” …</p>
<p>So there may be a team of seven somewhere that has someone who has not gone to college; that does not mean that the 14% applies to the company overall. Also, those who did not go to college are unlikely to be uneducated-beyond-high-school; they are likely to be highly motivated people who self educated themselves beyond high school.</p>
<p>This is an interesting idea. However, given how poorly the Common App (and the Obamacare app) has performed this year, it would certainly be hard to get a lot of kids and families on board with the idea that a BIG GOVERNMENT bureaucracy is going to be efficient, well organized or even going to work at all. Not only that, what the author is proposing is going to have the same problems as our existing system:</p>
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<li><p>Somewhere there is already a team of “college consultants” who will, for a fee, package your child on youtube, googledocs, etc. The minute a newer, fairer system rolls out, they will hang out their shingles and begin figuring out how to get YOUR CHILD to the top of the pile of the newer, “fairer” system.</p></li>
<li><p>Somewhere in (most likely) Asia (though it could be Russia) there is a team of computer hackers who are going to figure out how to do things that are ethically questionable – including paying other people to make google docs with your child’s name on them, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Somewhere in Cambridge, MA there is a group of university people who will figure out how to make their universities look more expensive and shinier, so that even within a UCAS type system they will still appear to be better and more desirable, regardless of what you want to study</p></li>
<li><p>Somewhere out there, the president of College Board (who earns 1.5 million dollars a year, in case you were wondering) is having his minions figure out how they can charge us all seventy dollars every time our child posts something to Google docs or elsewhere for inclusion in his or her electronic portfolio</p></li>
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<p>In short, there are many, many individuals and groups who have a vested interest in maintaining and creating a system that is not fair, transparent or efficient – because the money is made in helping people navigate through the opaque mess that presently exists. </p>
<p>I do not understand why a thread like this gets pinned in the new world… pinned threads are for things people might ask again and again, so put at the top to avoid repeat questions, right? I can’t see how this falls in this category… Same thing with “Is Kindergarten Too Easy?”. Just because a “CC Admissions Expert” started the thread shouldn’t give it “pinned status” – if they have something relevant to say to the community, the discussion will keep going and it will stay at the top. But eventually it will fall down the list, as it should.</p>
<p>They would force everyone to apply for a google plus account in order to take the SAT test, and they would censor test results, sell them to Pakistan’s intelligence agencies and only white people would want to take the SAT test ever again just like their google glass.
Problem solved.</p>