Weird use of 'diversity' as a euphemism

[garbon]

Over 40 percent of people don't complete a 4 year degree in even 6 years, indicating achieving a degree is not trivially easy.

I wonder how much that has to do with lack of application (i.e. putting said degree on hold while focusing on a job) than any actual difficulty of getting a diploma.

[dps]

I don't think that you understand how university admissions work in the US.  A lot of American colleges and universities have open admissions--basically, if you have a high school diploma or a GED, you can get in.  Now that doesn't hold true with the more elite schools, but your typical state school, yeah.

Maybe the schools that are causing a university college to be useless. If there isn't some toil to get into college (even if that toil is just getting good grades at a junior college and then transferring to a UC), what's the point?

I was neither defending or attacking the concept of open admisssions, merely pointing out its existance.

Over 40 percent of people don't complete a 4 year degree in even 6 years, indicating achieving a degree is not trivially easy.

I wonder how much that has to do with lack of application (i.e. putting said degree on hold while focusing on a job) than any actual difficulty of getting a diploma.

I don't have any stats on the issue, but FWIW, anecdotally I know more people who dropped out because they either got a job offer as good as they could expect to have gotten with a degree, or who simply needed a full-time income and couldn't afford to stay in school than people who flunked out.

[Josquius]

Yeah, getting a degree is pretty darn easy.
Getting one with good grades is a bit more challenging but just getting something...anyone can do it.

I don't think that you understand how university admissions work in the US.  A lot of American colleges and universities have open admissions--basically, if you have a high school diploma or a GED, you can get in.  Now that doesn't hold true with the more elite schools, but your typical state school, yeah.[/-/quote]

ey? You don't have admissions like in other countries? You just let anyone in?
I'm sure I've seen in stuff set in American high schools people worrying about getting into X or Y university and having to apply.

[jimmy olsen]

Asians are aparently not people of color. 

Well, milky-light-yellow is not much of a color, to be honest. Try painting your walls with that - it comes off almost as white.

Um...Indians and Pakistanis?  We have at least as many of them as East Asians here in Texas.

But it's the white Asians that are overrepresented in college while the black Asians aren't.

[Eddie Teach]

Whatchu talkin bout, Tim. There's tons of Indians in college.

[garbon]

I'm glad that we can bring black and white as differences within each "race".

[Siege]

I never went to college.
I feel inadecuate here in Languish.

[The Brain]

I wouldn't worry about the resident intellectuals. "Inte" in Swedish means "not".

[garbon]

I wouldn't worry about the resident intellectuals. "Inte" in Swedish means "not".

What wisdom is there to be found in Sweden?

[The Brain]

I wouldn't worry about the resident intellectuals. "Inte" in Swedish means "not".

What wisdom is there to be found in Sweden?

Viking.

[PDH]

I thought he was from Iceland?

[The Brain]

I thought he was from Iceland?

You're thinking of the giant ash cloud.

[PDH]

Same thing, really.