Opinion Center
College Admission Policies Survey
 
 

 

Academic Standards Versus What?
1.  The purpose of colleges and universities is to educate students in academic subjects and areas they will use to live fruitful lives. Agree
Disagree

2.  Generally, smarter and harder working, interested people make better students. Agree
Disagree

3.  Generally, better educated students perform better on their jobs. Agree
Disagree

4.  I want to work with well-qualified people so I can do my best. Agree
Disagree

5.  When people are educated they generally understand how to do their jobs, live productive lives, and answer surveys more intelligently. Agree
Disagree

6.  Select the single most important qualification for college admission. Recent grades & test scores
Athletic skills
Race
Ethnicity
Personal hardships

7.  Do you choose your doctor based upon race, ethnicity, medical skills, or personal hardships? Race
Ethnicity
Medical skills
Personal hardships

8.  Should professional baseball, football and basketball teams select players based primarily upon playing skills, race, ethnicity or personal hardships? Playing skills
Race
Ethnicity
Personal hardships

9.  Should colleges and universities use academic potential based upon previous grades and related aspects, or race, ethnicity, and personal hardships to select students? Academic potential based upon previous grades & related aspects
Race, ethnicity, personal hardships

10. When you go grocery shopping, do you select foods that taste bad, look spoiled, are over-priced, or are poisonous? Taste bad
Look spoiled
Are over-priced
Are poisonous
None of the above

11.  What do you think should be the three most important qualifications to get into a college or university? 1.
2.
3.

12.  If you personally aren't very good at the three qualifications you listed in the previous question, should you be admitted to any school you select anyway? Yes
No
Why?

13.  Why are minorities at the University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley and elsewhere afraid to stand on their academic records alone and continue to expect extra admission points for being members of a minority group? They know they are not able to meet the academic standards needed using only their high school grades & college entrance exams
If they can get something for free, they take it
Our culture has conditioned them expect special treatment
Other:

14.  I know not what others may do, but as for me, I will earn my progress, not take handouts. Agree
Disagree

15.  I am: Female
Male

16.  My age group is: Under 20
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70 & older

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