Opinion | UI needs to reevaluate its acceptance standards, starting with an end to rolling admission

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Opinion | UI needs to reevaluate its acceptance standards, starting with an end to rolling admission

Three years ago, when I made my final college decision, I was ecstatic. After a long and arduous process, I narrowed down my choices to three schools, and then I clicked the “Accept” button — I was going to be a Hawkeye. I was excited to start this new journey and travel outside my comfort...

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[Bulldogs1974]

I think this goes hand in hand with the easing of RAI standards due to covid. grade inflation and complaining parents are hurting education. I would also say: administration jumping on educational bandwagons has hurt as well.

 

[GOHOX69]

Iowa will take in any warm body. Most of the students at Iowa are dumb as shit. But hey they need the money, so why not accept these clowns?

And let's not forget student o' athletes.

 

[HawkInDC]

The entire college admissions process is just a mess and the op-ed is as much an indictment of the admission process as influenced by the ranking process as it is UI's admissions policies. Was so much easier 30 years ago.

My daughter threw in her application to Iowa as a safety as noted in the article. Hey, the FB games look like fun, we love Caitlin and still have some family back home.

Almost no chance she goes there, but the rolling admissions actually gives some control to the students whereas every other school is looking to maximize the rejection rate and yield(admitted and attended ratio).

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Iowa will take in any warm body. Most of the students at Iowa are dumb as shit. But hey they need the money, so why not accept these clowns?

And let's not forget student o' athletes.

Remember when the Iowa GOP threatened Iowa's funding unless they allowed more Iowa kids in? Guess what, if you were an Iowa kid and couldn't get in it was because you're a dumbass and shouldn't be going to college.

 

[Titus Andronicus]

So they act on an application right after they receive it?

Do they have a cap? or do they attempt to adjust the standards higher or lower during the application process/season? How do they manage for having a correct or manageable class size show up in the fall?

In any case, I had always been told that this was a school that was easy to get into and tough to make it all the way through. What is our drop out or "flunk out" rate ... in particular compared to Michigan or Wisconsin for example? or USC and other large private schools. I bet Iowa academics would look rather daunting in such a comparison.

The best metric would be to compare the number of applicants accepted and who actually enroll to the number who graduate in four (or five) years.
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Very few of the kids I met as a freshman at Iowa ever graduated from there. Only two of the 6-8 kids around me in the Quadrangle were there a year or two later and 3 of them were gone by Christmas.

All but two of my new classmates in my MBA class at Berkeley earned their degree within a couple of years. One transferred to Harvard, (Berkeley had been his fall-back school.) and one was an affirmative action type guy who was in over his head. There were probably a few more, but from among the initial group in my first-year finance class, we mostly made it through and on time.

Two different systems; two different approaches ... but both were state schools. One correct for Iowa and one correct for California.