<p>I was thinking about this last night before I went to sleep. Here is my proposal, have students choose who gets in. Here is how it works.</p>
<p>first, a central organization like SCAA Selective College Admission Association would sign a contract with HYPSMBDD where each year 50 spots of each class would be reserved for those students who were selected by the Selective College Admission Association.</p>
<p>Here is how the selection would work.</p>
<p>people would post their stats and essays on a forum like this one. Kids would send their scores to the SCAA and the scores would be verified by the SCAA.</p>
<p>Then, using their accounts(which would be verified with social security numbers) the kids would vote on who should go where. Those with the highest vote counts would get in.</p>
<p>What do you think of this?</p>
<p>oh and the ec's and transcript would be verified by SCAA and the profiles would be anonymous</p>
<p>Some schools have very flexible graduation and major requirements giving students pretty free rein over what to study.
Other schools are more structured having fairly defined and comprehensive courses of study and more required classes.
I am of the mind that most students need structure and strong recommendations of what courses are needed for say a lit degree, by those in the field including professors.
Students should not be judging other students essays for recommendations to college- they simply aren't qualified.</p>
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<p>So getting into a high-end school would be akin to being elected cheerleader or class president? Just imagine the absurd campaigning that would ensue. I can't think of any scenario where colleges would put the selection of their incoming students in the hands of a bunch of anonymous high school kids scattered across the country.</p>
<p>Nice idea, but I guess it would not be really practical nor feasible - it would require much more money for the admission process and it is much more prone to an eventual "corruption". Moreover it would be rather insecure since whoever with a rather good knowledge of programming could modify the polls, or the status online.</p>
<p>students have a very different idea of who is good for college than the colleges do themselves. and yeah, I don't think we have the experience to make judgement calls that big.</p>
<p>And yeah, the risk of the whole thing just degenerating into a popularity contest is just too big</p>
<p>Anonymous? That would require very expensive and intricate system so as to correlate all the different data - not quite what colleges would seek as alternative.</p>
<p>With all the fibbing, trolls, and other odd stuff on the web, can you imagine that people would take it seriouslly?</p>
<p>Wouldn't some people want to mess with the system and vote for people completely wrong for the school. Or if they saw the perfect applicate, the one who shines in everything, maybe to burst the bubble....</p>
<p>Here's another totally fanciful alternative. Let the faculty at the colleges do the admissions. </p>
<p>Granted, this is impractical at many schools -- at least if the faculty are expected to teach and do research -- and so admissions is totally given over to "adcoms" who never taught a college class and might not meet the current admissions standards of the colleges for which they work.</p>
<p>what is hypsmbbdd? those are certainly not the best schools...where are the c's cornell and columbia?-brown and duke are way behind both of them....all in all, not a very bright idea...colleges have the right to choose whom they wish to admit--this concept is, in fact, idiocy...</p>
<p>Actually, ABC is doing something kind of like this. Check out the upcoming reality TV series, "The Scholar", beginning in early June. It promises a full 4 year scholarship to a school of the choice of the top competitor. (granted not exactly admissions related, but fun to note anyway).</p>
<p>The press release does say that finally the top prize of a reality TV show will be a good education.</p>