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| Authored by: Prabhakar Ragde on Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 10:53 AM CDT |
The ten grand (or whatever) doesn't buy you a degree. It buys you an
opportunity to earn a degree. The admissions process should exclude most
people who aren't ready for whatever reason, even if they "really try". But even
if it were nearly perfect, you can't expect it to exclude all such people, and it
is far from perfect right now. There are always going to be people who flunk
out. They might discover crystal meth in third year.
My sense is that some students who spend a lot of time at their school work
may not be working effectively. Spending twenty-five hours on a
programming assignment isn't effective if you didn't prepare in advance, you
didn't start the readings until hour ten, and you didn't ask the tutor for help
until hour twenty.
There are ways in which the system can be unfair, but I don't think the act of
flunking someone intrinsically qualifies. --PR[ Parent ]
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