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GPAs effect future placement, public schools become competitive with private schools, private schools are incentivized to differentiate and do so on placement, public schools change to meet expectations.
That’s what I’ve always imagined.
Yes, it's kind of like a prisoner's dilemma / race to the bottom, (see my first point here: #1286911)
However, that would naturally lead to the question of why grade inflation doesn't cause a university's reputation to suffer. So that's my second point, I think reputation is a lot more weighted towards upfront selectivity than difficulty of coursework. In other words, reputation is based on selection of innate talent now, rather than the value-add of the coursework itself.
A third point is that the fiatization of the economy may have led the Cantillon effect to be more important. And thus selectivity on pedigree has become more important than classwork as well.
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selectivity on pedigree
This is what it feels like. It's not about quality of education or evidence of great alumni...the only time you hear someone say what school a person went to is when the school makes a big deal of it.
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But SAT and other standardized tests should account for differences in school quality. Not all A's are created equal which is why the Texas rule admitting the top 10 percent from all high schools into UT is absurd
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Very few publics schools are competitive with private schools and most of those 'public' schools are charter or magnet
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