Here's an Idea...
Changes in the SAT are said to reduce "coachability". Critics cry bullshit, and rightfully so. Let's face it, standardized tests like GREs, SATs, LSATs, ect., test nothing more than a students' ability to shell out money preparing, whether by paying Kaplan or buying prep books.
The best solution would be eliminating the standardized tests entirely relying instead on genuine tests of intelligence and academic skill: GPA, University specific essays, portfolios (where appropriate), and personal interviews.
The cost of university tuition has only gone up recent years--at the same time more students are attending (more students = more tuition fees). With fewer Tenure track faculty, most classes at universities are being taught by $3000 per class adjuncts (or there abouts). So why not take that huge disparity between the actual cost per student and student tuition to have a thorough process to be more selective.
For the fifty to one hundred dollar application fee, a university can certainly spare the time to meet with every applicant for ten minutes--that's six hundred dollars per hour (assuming a hundred dollar fee for application yields 10 minutes of interview per applicant and that the application fee money at present is merely being consumed by the beast of red tape).
Instead of having a standardized writing test, why not actually read application essays? Students spend tens of not hundreds of hours preparing application essays for both graduate and undergraduate college. So why should the SAT and GRE test writing? If an application essay were 1,000 words long, it would take a qualified application reviewer only a few minutes per applicant to thoroughly read the essay--and for the hundred dollar application fee, they should read it twice.
But then again, our nation has reality television, and so any more time spent on applicants to college would take away from the precious hours spent in front of our vacumn tubes. Let's just gut primary education, teach only test preperation, and judge everyone on their standardized test score. We could even do away with dissertations since all we really need are Professors of SAT and Doctorates of GRE. Everyone who can score a 2400 on the SAT can become an adjunct at Kaplan to teach others.
The Chinese are planning on going to the moon.
The best solution would be eliminating the standardized tests entirely relying instead on genuine tests of intelligence and academic skill: GPA, University specific essays, portfolios (where appropriate), and personal interviews.
The cost of university tuition has only gone up recent years--at the same time more students are attending (more students = more tuition fees). With fewer Tenure track faculty, most classes at universities are being taught by $3000 per class adjuncts (or there abouts). So why not take that huge disparity between the actual cost per student and student tuition to have a thorough process to be more selective.
For the fifty to one hundred dollar application fee, a university can certainly spare the time to meet with every applicant for ten minutes--that's six hundred dollars per hour (assuming a hundred dollar fee for application yields 10 minutes of interview per applicant and that the application fee money at present is merely being consumed by the beast of red tape).
Instead of having a standardized writing test, why not actually read application essays? Students spend tens of not hundreds of hours preparing application essays for both graduate and undergraduate college. So why should the SAT and GRE test writing? If an application essay were 1,000 words long, it would take a qualified application reviewer only a few minutes per applicant to thoroughly read the essay--and for the hundred dollar application fee, they should read it twice.
But then again, our nation has reality television, and so any more time spent on applicants to college would take away from the precious hours spent in front of our vacumn tubes. Let's just gut primary education, teach only test preperation, and judge everyone on their standardized test score. We could even do away with dissertations since all we really need are Professors of SAT and Doctorates of GRE. Everyone who can score a 2400 on the SAT can become an adjunct at Kaplan to teach others.
The Chinese are planning on going to the moon.
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