| In 1964, I was "graduated", if you can call it that, second | | | | Come after me with a pitch fork! While colleges and |
| from bottom in my high school's class of 46 students. It | | | | universities DO have GOBS of applicants for every |
| is not that English, history, math or science were my | | | | PLACE in their next Frosh class, they do not have |
| enemies, but my family problems pretty much | | | | same for their JUNIOR class places.NOW how/why |
| precluded my studying with any emphasis. I was not | | | | did I make the leap from Frosh to Junior?EVERY |
| lazy nor industrious, but staying away from bullies, a | | | | college/university in the U.S. requires the same |
| smart alecky sister and dealing with "hormones" | | | | entrance criteria and thus, basics of its FROSH, and |
| effectively turned me into an intellectual nincompoop.In | | | | SOPHOMORES, but not of its JUNIORS and |
| time, my acne and hormones pressure subsided, and, | | | | SENIORS. Why is that? It is because College is divided |
| with my military service completed, I re-focused my | | | | into 2 sections, lower-division under-graduate and |
| brain. Now, without those earlier "barriers", I learned the | | | | upper-division under-graduate [and then, at the |
| wonders of science, business math, history and even | | | | applicable time, if one is desirous and lucky, one can |
| gained sufficient English skills to become a college | | | | apply for graduate school--often at the same |
| instructor.Undoubtedly, in addition to my fanatical love | | | | university].All college students entering as a FROSH |
| of business, I learned about college admissions and the | | | | take placement tests for English, math and science skill |
| "fraud" and misguided emphasis forced on American | | | | levels. Said student Is then placed into either Bonehead |
| families nationwide. This fraud I speak of relates to the | | | | English [101 or lower number] or advanced and that |
| emphasis of being accepted into the college/university | | | | can include one of dozens of classes-the Classics, |
| of one's choice AS A FROSH. In order to accomplish | | | | Poetry, etc.These same FROSH take elementary |
| this act, test companies across the US gain freshmen | | | | algebra, elementary science, etc., all based on the |
| and women as clients, "guaranteeing a high score on | | | | results of tests taken in-between ADMISSION and |
| the SAT test" if one follows the test designer's rules | | | | the first day of class. RARELY do |
| and methods. What these test givers DON'T state is | | | | Students question this system [not EVEN gifted |
| that their tests are almost irrelevant when it comes | | | | students].Adjunct [college] business professor, AND |
| time to being accepted by your preferred college.LET | | | | when called, high school business teacher and sub |
| me qualify that before 100 million moms, dads, | | | | teacher. |
| test-givers and universities | | | | |