Why do some universities have high admission requirements?

Huhbuwha?? What’chu talking ‘bout tall guy?

Could you provide more detail please?

@cookieman Sure. In high school and before; you only need a 50% average to go to the next grade. While in university you need much higher grades to get into university.

Why does it change?

Athabasca distance university has only needed to be 16 years old to be admitted.

I think it depends on the school.

My daughter’s middle and Hugh schools required a minimum of a C (2.0 cumulative gpa) to progress to the next grade.

My undergraduate college required a C in all classes except your major classes, which had to be a B or better.

Later, my graduate school was basically pass/fail.

However, back when I was in public high school, kids skated by and progressed from grade to grade with all Ds.

My mom was doing other things and I didn’t really have to go school from the seventh grade.

So I didn’t. I stayed home and hit golf balls into the garage. That isn’t a euphemism or anything. I had a set of golf clubs and would just open the door and fire away. All day, for months. And I was 13 so I had a homeless dude buy me a Swank and I masturbated all over the place. I was essentially 13 and living alone. Living the dream!

Then I moved up to Oregon to live with my sister. She enrolled me in high school and they were all “wtf???” do we do with this kid. They could have put me in the seventh grade to match my transcripts. But they decided to put me in the 10th grade and hope for the best.

This turned out to not be a problem except for English classes. I still struggle there. But high school is easy. Do the homework with the provided book and you are golden.

Back to the question.. Is the rule in high school really enforced? It seems like they really want to move people on and get them out of the system. What good is keeping a kid back if they suck at math? Some people will just never be good at that.

The advancement in high school around here is 60%, not 50. And admission to college is much higher, To get int the University of California, one must be in the top ten percent.

Also, @RedDeerGuy1, grade school is part of compulsory education, college is strictly voluntary.

@zenvelo Maybe in the future having a bachelor’s degree would be compulsory.

Supply and demand.

Because they want people who will actually put some effort into their education.