Who should admit students?

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@VeryLuckyParent wrote

Consider the subprime lenders. They did not really face the consequences of their decisions, since somebody bought the bad loans they sold. The current ad coms really can take a lot of risk admitting students into a class, because they seldom have to live with the consequences of the student’s failure or success in the classroom. They don’t have to stare at the term paper of the student they admitted and consider giving it a C or a D or even an F knowing that they were the cause for this student being there.

For a faculty member, this might be a tougher decision. Would they admit a student whom they know they might see in their class, if they personally believe that the kid may not succeed at that school?

Somehow, I think that if a person was forced to interact with the student in class, they might get pickier about their selection

College adcomms are not bounty-hunters like subprime mortgage brokers who profit by the head. While adcomms may not have to read the term papers of the students they admit, the adcomms certainly do have a vested interest in the quality of the students they admit, as colleges get tracked on their 4-yr or 6-yr graduation rate, along with other student body quality measures.

Unlike subprime lenders, colleges cannot profit from rebundling and selling their underperforming students to other schools. There’s only a down-side for colleges to admit incapable students: erosion of of revenue & erosion of reputation.

Also, your idea has a serious manpower flaw. College admissions work and bank lending ard FULL time jobs. Dunno how you think professors have time to read thousands of applications during the height of the school year.

And **what makes you think the Adcomns decide on what the institutional priorities of the school are? **That’s for the college’s President and Board of Directors to decide. The Admissions Office only executes the targets set by the leadership. Even if the chore got reassigned to faculty, the faculty would still be directed to achieve the same institutional goals.