re: What European Countries Sacrifice for Free College

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What would those “objective stats” be exactly? People already scream that standardized tests are discriminatory and inaccurate. High school grades wouldn’t be a reliable comparison either as the workload and grading at an elite private vs affluent suburban public vs poor inner city/rural are wildly different. 

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I realize that. My suggestion is to have an organization comprised of 5 representatives from each state take a vote on what on what the federalized testing should be. Or something similar in order to address the disparity. I'll admit that I don't know how to fix it.

That said, what do you and others expect when want states to have total sovereignty over their education. Of course the results and going to be vastly different across 50 states.

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And you must be joking about this affecting different demographics across the board? Our colleges would be comprised primarily of Asian students with a small minority of white students, almost everyone being middle to upper class. That is assuming the objective criteria was standardized testing. 

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I realize that upper class whites and Asians would hold the advantages.

However, poor whites and blacks would be left out of the equation. That's what I meant, it wouldn't be JUST blacks.

But if we actually promote vocational school and maybe add a few bells and whistles (not as much as University) then we could balance it out.