That’s the message that is given to “underprivileged” youth by the latest dumbing-down fad in higher education – the elimination of SAT and ACT exams as college entrance requirements. Why study when grade inflation and affirmative action will get you into Harvard, where even more grade inflation will guarantee that you graduate?
Some alumni are understandably unhappy about this, for they correctly anticipate that the dumbing down of their alma mater will devalue their hard-earned degrees. (They don’t understand that in today’s world of higher education “diversity,” i.e., institutionalized discrimination against white males, trumps everything. How naive of those privileged white males (to borrow the language of the university diversity bureaucracy).
