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In pursuit of competitive advantage, well-off parents spend thousands of dollars on test prep courses, college admission summer camps and "dress for success" counseling.
Most school pages sport factual profiles: class sizes, enrollment, courses, college placement figures and faculty degrees.
Thirty years later, those students who had better spatial and math skills reported engineering, computer science, and/or mathematics as their favorite courses, college majors, and career pursuits, compared to individuals with better verbal abilities (Lubinski & Benbow, 2006).
Previous to this program, I had only really done wet-lab work in courses, college and high school, where students simply followed instructions and completed a lab report.
In upper-level courses, college GPA is a good predictor of whether a student will struggle (Murtaugh et al., 1999), but this measure was not available, because students often take the BIO 100 course in their first college semester (Table 1).
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Partially because of the project, Lowville schools offer 11 AP courses, college-level classes, have new athletic facilities, and soon, every student grades three through 12 will have his or her own laptop.
In addition to theoretical and analytical courses, colleges should teach real world practical skills such as constructing a website.
Of course, college students are not a monolith.
Of course college is not for everyone, as Professor X points out.
My answer to these people (which rarely satisfies them) is that of course college admissions is not meritocratic in that sense, and it never was.
Of course, college football has its own little charms, including the disclosure that winning the national championship ended up costing Auburn $614,000.
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