um..... what????

[Nitt1300]

HS administrators don’t want to lose funding and want to avoid sanctions so their goal becomes failing as few students as possible. As a spouse of a HS teacher, I hear stories all the time of students who are not only failing, but never even show up for class. The last couple weeks of school is always a parade of parents calling the principal with sob stories and threats of lawsuits and students asking how they can bring their 0% for the school year up to a passing grade. The vast majority of those students and pushed through with passing grades and the teachers essentially have no say in the end.

That combined with the test optional policies of colleges is a very bad combination.

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/08/15/uc-berkeley-sat-test-blind-admissions-math-scores/

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

 

[BobPSU92]

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

Except in Happy Valley:

 

[Lion84]

SAT range of accepted students at UMich: 1360-1530
SAT range of accepted students at UMD: 1390-1530

SAT range of accepted students at PSU: 1200-1400

So now they are Maryland Men not Michigan Men.

 

[LionJim]

So now they are Maryland Men not Michigan Men.

Dang, the cat’s now out of the bag.

 

[rigi19041]

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

The left is more I terested in diversity than success.