re: New York on verge of tuition-free college for middle class.

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Thank you. Jesus, it needed to be said. My daughter is in high school and the whole secondary education system has become a joke. The average- keep in mind, AVERAGE- GPA for the entire school is now a 3.43. Let that sink in for a bit. If you're "only" making two A's and four B's then you're dragging the school down. This is a public school, keep in mind. Yet most of these kids are making middling/average scores on their SATs and other standardized tests. (Which is the way the bell curve works- most kids are average. Gasp!) Now there's a huge controversy and parents can't understand why their precious angels are "honor students" yet are scoring average on their standardized tests. They're furious with the school and PTA meetings are shite shows of white middle class soccer mom fury. So the answer must be that clearly little Ryker and Mason and Bryn are geniuses- they've got straight A's. So the tests are the problem. This post was edited on 4/8 at 8:16 pm

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The SAT and ACT are much different today from back when a lot of us took them. When I took the SAT it was basically an IQ test. It measured potential. Very un PC. Dumb kids who were given good grades were exposed. Now these tests measure what you were taught and retained in high school.
If potential was the main factor for being accepted into college in these days and times, the acceptance rate for your average state university would be flirting with single digits.