Dumbing Down College Admissions

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar

 Inside Higher Ed reports that such factors as test scores, grades, and class rank played a less significant role in college admissions in 2008 than they did in 2007.  NACAC (National Association for College Admissions Counseling), an organization incapable (or unwilling to) of putting together a coherent report, as I concluded in my own articles for CNS News earlier this year, now seems to be continuing its campaign for eliminating objective standards in order to bypass laws against affirmative action.  Such fuzzy criteria as “community service” and essay topics that reveal the student’s race displace tests that measure knowledge.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn again to that fraud Bob Schaefer as an authority.  As I noted in my CNSNew column, “Who Is Fair Test?” he is a p.r man who represents far-left organizations from his home office in Florida.  But he is routinely quoted by Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the New York Times as some kind of authority on college admissions.  Well, he started up an organization with the misnomer, Fair Test (which has received money from George Soros’ Open Society foundation).  It should be called No Test.

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