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February 28th, 2006 Stewart Posted in Uncategorized |

Inside Higher Ed :: Reforming Selective College Admissions

The college admissions process is far from perfect; any college admissions officer in the country will tell you that. But the suggestion that college admissions should be more closely attuned to the needs of the parents, rather than the students, smacks of the kind of helicopter-parent mentality that IHEs should be working actively to quash, not enable.

Colleges and universities are merit-based institutions. They provide the opportunity for a young mind to grow and flourish, or to fail and flounder. There are no guarantees, nor should there be. They are not diploma mills that need to somehow feed the egos of those paying the bills. They are not in any way obligated to make life easier for either the students who wish to enter them, or for their parents.