Open The Doors To Higher Education

My children go to great schools here in Texas. The instruction is excellent, facilities are outstanding, and teachers are wonderful. The total educational environment makes it almost impossible for a student not to get good grades.

All the courses, materials and instruction are online. Given advanced technology, if a student gets stumped on a question, the answer is literally one click away on the internet. Grade point averages are no longer scaled on a 4.0 average, with a 4.0 being an A. Students now graduate with 5.0 averages and higher. These higher numbers are meant to differentiate students who take regular courses from those who take A.P classes. Consequently, a grade of “A” in an A.P class is graded higher than 4.0.

In prior eras, a teacher could naturally tell who the better students were because the smarter students could figure out some of the more vexing problems on their own. But today, every student can get the “right results” and be an A student precisely because every answer is one click away.

As a result, universities are hard pressed to determine who they should admit because so many students are now qualified. In the book Post Corona by Scott Galloway, the author cites a passage from an Ivy League school admission officer who admits that the students are so qualified now that they could admit five times the amount…