<p>Noted in this thread have been a variety of colleges in the United States, the country with over 1,000 (or, by some definitions, over 3,000) colleges. Maybe there is already a place in our pluralistic nonsystem for every kind of special case, and there is less to worry about here than we suppose. I don’t see anyone here arguing that a determined high school graduate, or even a smart high school dropout, has any trouble getting into college. I don’t even see a carefully evidenced statement that there are many high school students, at any rank in the high school class or rank by SAT I score, who can’t find an affordable college. Inasmuch as colleges consciously differ from one another in whom they admit, where is the problem here? There are colleges that completely disregard SAT I scores, and there are colleges that highly regard high school G.P.A.s, so what’s left to worry about?</p>