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by mapt 753 days ago
They should, but this is arguably social work rather than the sort of education we should charge [massive quantities of interest-bearing] money for.

What I don't understand is how you can ethically accept someone for admission to a university knowing you will have to do extensive social work to bring them up to the standard of education you were supposed to test for at admission. Big chunks of that are affirmative action, sports scholarships, and functionally-for-profit admits (in my system, overseas admissions to a state university). Every student like this you accept for a normal course of undergrad work represents another student that you're going to reject for not meeting admissions criteria.

We have historically used "Community Colleges" as a second tier system that assisted this sort of student for minimal debt with significant subsidy, and "Universities", especially "Research Universities", as a first tier system where both professors and students are expected to perform higher level work.

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The higher level course load is not a myth: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/14x2oyp/yes...