Who Get's To Graduate?

[DistrictDeacon]

A long, interesting read from this week's NY Times Magazine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?ref=magazine&_r=1

Those who make it through will find many topics that have been discussed here before.

 

[WinkinDeac]

Those who have mastered contractions?

 

[ChicdeaC]

Those who have mastered contractions?

Haha. Was coming in here to post similar.

 

[DistrictDeacon]

Oops. Thank goodness my privilege got me through Wake.

 

[Wakeforest22890]

GET IS GRADUATE?!

 

[dartsndeacs]

Haha. Was coming in here to post similar.

Thats alotta words to say if you gove more help to people with low sat scores it'll help

 

[94Deac]

Oops. Thank goodness my privilege got me through Wake.

Hubris says you don't have to edit it.

 

[tsywake]

GET IS GRADUATE?!

But who was phone?

 

[Biff Tannen]

Great story, btw.

 

[Go]

Was she really studying? If she was really trying and got an F in Statistics, then I don't understand her GPA/ACT score combination.

UT prob should rethink the admissions process.

 

[ITK]

Perhaps the most striking fact about the success programs is that the selection criteria are never disclosed to students.

It is now.

 

[SmooveDeac]

Perhaps the most striking fact about the success programs is that the selection criteria are never disclosed to students.

It is now.

That got me, too - cat's out of the bag! Having said that (and dealt with the effects of this first-hand), I think it's a pretty awesome program.

 

[Deacon923]

good read, thanks for posting. amazing how much difference such low-cost, simple interventions had.