<p>Do you think it will be even more competitive? Will the schools that are elite today still be elite? Will the SAT/ACT still be used? etc. etc.</p>
<p>I think it will be hella competitive, my sister and her friends are in freakin 4th/5th grade, and they're stressing, NO JOKE. </p>
<p>"omg i need to do all of these sports, better start now so i can tell colleges i've been doing it since intermediate school, and better start taking these summer camp classes and start prepping for the sat that i need to take in 7th grade for cty . . and mom, i need to start taking spanish & instrument classes, OMG i am SO nervous, what if i dont get in????"</p>
<p>And that's only 6 years younger than me! And yeah, I think the SAT/ACT will still be used, it's been used forever, just altered throughout the years, even with the amount of criticism it receives. It's pretty flexible.</p>
<p>We will all be dead or under a Marxist regime.</p>
<p>Neither involves higher education.</p>
<p>i'll be old and wrinkly.</p>
<p>and i'll prob forget all about the admissions process to care how they do it then.</p>
<p>I think the competition will either go up a lot or stay around the same (if less known colleges rise up in reputation, but it might now happen). SATs will probably stay forever.</p>
<p>I think things will change, people will realize how out of control the college process is becoming, if it doesn't calm down, it will only spin more out of control, and then it will recede</p>
<p>haha @ smoke</p>
<p>Yeah, I dont think it was me though, well maybe it was, but not to that degree . . .</p>
<p>yeah also, URM advantage will be completely abolished most likely, and getting into community college will probably be harder as the number of applicants skyrocket and the number of colleges don't increase as fast .. cuz you know, we're running out of space on our precious Earth . . i mean, it'll be admissions time for our own kids, which, as kids, we can see is very different from our parents' time.</p>
<p>I'm an aspiring economist...by the way</p>
<p>They will be a heck of a lot more competitive. POPULATION INCREASES MORE BY THE DAYS. I can't believe people still don't believe on a limit of childs any family can have. I support that from the Chinese. At least they can acknowledge a problem and try to fix it. Everyone else believes if you ignore it soon enough it will magically disappear.</p>
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I can't believe people still don't believe on a limit of childs any family can have. I support that from the Chinese. At least they can acknowledge a problem and try to fix it.
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Right...the US should limit the number of kids families can have because there aren't enough spots at top universities.</p>
<p>A high school teacher a long time ago told me community colleges are going to have a certain gpa requirement and won't except anyone with a 3 year diploma. So far none of that happened.</p>
<p>Cghen the problem is bigger then you realize. This isn't a big problem today but by then it will grow. A 1 liter bottle can't be filled with 2 gallons of water and you will soon realize. There is only so much of everything. Technology increases and lowers the need of people to do a job, however, the population is on a trend of tremendous growth each year. The problem will arrive and your ignorance of trying to acknowledge the problem will show.</p>
<p>As to the nymets guy making an assumption my statement correlates to my current status, way to make assumptions. I might not get into Harvard because of my horrible Freshman year but I guarantee you a good top school for me regardless. </p>
<p>I simply look into things deeper then 3 days from today unlike others.</p>
<p>I was serious</p>
<p>Anyway, if we are not all dead, it will probably be a system parallel to that in Germany. A child is tested and observed until about 4rth grade and then placed on the path most condusive to their individual capabilities. In Germany, it is divided into College Prep, Regular, and Remedial(not called that but amounts to the same). These will be further divided as education progresses into schools focused on subjects: sciences, mathematics, humanities, social sciences.</p>
<p>Since we will be under the formerly mentioned Marxist regime, education will be free. College prep students will be assigned to certain elite schools based upon their performance in the equivelent to high school and continue into graduate school. Intermediate will continue into college but then enter the work force. Remedial will attend the equivalent of "trade schools" and enter the necessary sector of the work force.</p>
<p>There will be no "competition" or application process. Students will be assigned, because the current system, at it's increasing rate of innefficency, will fail.</p>
<p>kinda echoes marx and his views on capitalism</p>
<p>collegeboard will never die out, they'll simply add to the list of PSAT, SAT, AP, etc</p>
<p>A future mad scientist, distraught from receiving rejections from all of his top schools, invents a mind-control machine which causes many people to think college is not for them, thus leaving a small elitist group free to go wherever.... :p</p>
<p>Neuroengineering will be the new impacted major. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>sorting hat</p>
<p>I think it will be about the same competition-wise as now, since the spike from the babyboomers will return. I think the process may be a little different though. I think there wont be any more AA or at least not much of an advantage in being a minority.</p>
<p>lol! sorting hat ... good one</p>