May 2017 article on Mastery Transcript...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...-kill-traditional-transcripts-and-change

Let me know when the Ivy League adopts it. (Speaking of which, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...inancial-aid_us_5a29c60fe4b073789f687aa6)

Offhand I don't see why admissions officers want a new subjective measure. Tests, grades, class-rank, imperfect as they are, provide some objective measure across all schools and applicants. Indeed, an objective measure on which the gifted excel.

See also https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097975 We're outnumbered 1000:1 and is the Mastery Transcript another way to move the goalposts on us.

More food for thought... http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-american-meritocracy/

Last edited by thx1138; 12/11/17 10:11 PM.