[dhimes]

Your conclusion is right. To me, that helps keep schools honest and continuously adapting their curriculum's (except for the misplaced apostrophe).

In other words: Sure, you have a 4.0 in engineering from Stanford. But now let's see if you can actually compute a Fourier transform. Or even if you know when to use a FT.

To my generation, that's damning. In other words, (quoting you here) ensuring, through their own testing, that candidates meet the proper qualifications without school bias is the new normal, and it's different in a way that says we don't/can't trust the universities to deliver their product any more. The status of the universities has changed in our society, and that, in my opinion, is an early signal for a coming disruption.

[gohrt]

It just means that employers are now hiring for competency in job function, and not just plucking the upper class elite to get access to their rolodex.

IOW, it's not that schools are getting worse at teaching, it's that they are getting better at teaching, and less about filtering elites.