Many states have faced lawsuits over the proposed requirements amid accusations that the tests are unfair to students with disabilities, non-native speakers of English and students attending schools with fewer educational resources.
Parents, usually the well-off ones, have continuously complained that the top-10% rule is unfair to students that happen to go to good high schools, because the same performance that puts a student in the top 20% of her graduating class in a well-heeled district, like the one Ms Fisher is from, might have been sufficient to land her in the top 10% somewhere else.
DeVos, speaking to students and faculty at George Mason University in Virginia earlier this month, said that the new rules were unfair to students accused of sexual assault, a conclusion she announced after meeting with men's rights groups, sexual assault survivors, and school administrators in July.
The Ucas admissions system is also unfair to students predicted lower grades than they finally achieve.
University administrators complain that this frustrates planning and growth and is unfair to students enrolled when tuition jumps.
Nancy L. Zimpher, the chancellor of the 64-campus SUNY system, has argued that periods of flat tuition, followed by sharp increases, are unfair to students, who have no way to predict the cost of their educations.
Like other critics, he thinks that the system is unfair to students because it reflects crudely what they achieve and creates an unhelpful divide between those awarded a 2.1 and those who get a 2.2.
We've always said it's unfair on students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland to be asked to pay up to £36,000 for a degree, just as it is to ask anyone to pay fees for their education.
Mr. Kruger favored a retest, saying that it should not take education officials so long to assemble a new test, and that the situation was unfair to students who had studied hard for their January exams but still wanted Regents diplomas.
Although Non Campus Mentis has been warmly received in most educational quarters, it has attracted criticisms from "a few" fellow academics "whose response has been along the lines of saying that anyone who insists on teaching English grammar or conventional history is somehow being unfair to students because they're imposing a certain, inflexible world view on them".
