You have probably just read the breaking news scandal about the bribery of officials at elite colleges by people who wanted to get their children admitted.
A lot of people in the AERO network are just scratching their heads about this.
First, we are pretty fed up with these simplistic “tests” that high school students are pushed into taking to get into college. Many colleges have discovered that these tests are not a good predictor of college success, and more than a thousand have announced that submitting an SAT or ACT is no longer required on an application to get into their school. Here’s a list of them!
Many of these barriers have been broken down by homeschoolers and democratic school graduates who more often submit much more useful portfolios describing the actual work they have done. Why are the colleges paying attention to this? They have discovered that these graduates of learner-centered approaches are much more successful in their colleges, by every measure. They are falling all over each other to get these students!
Second, many parents and students from alternative approaches are not so interested in the “elite” colleges, whose traditional methods are very out of date. They are more interested in higher education alternatives that have more individualized and innovative approaches, such as Goddard with its low residency program and Antioch College, pioneer in cooperative (work experience) education. Here is AERO’s list of higher education alternatives.
So, our take on this is a little ironic and different from the mainstream!
Please send us your reaction to this for the Sunday e news!
