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Zitarminator t1_jblbtfd wrote

One reason I've heard and very much agree with is that going to college exposes you to a great variety of people of different races and backgrounds and experiences. Same with travel. And the more you get those shared human experiences, the more you can empathize with other people. The more you support social programs, etc.

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gc3c OP t1_jbl7mpa wrote

Everyone is being indoctrinated into something.

Edit: That is to say, everyone is conforming their mind to some external standard and calling it learning. Indoctrination used to have the connotation of simply learning, but now it means learning uncritically, accepting something without critical thought. Which side is teaching students to think critically, and which side is teaching students to accept a set of alternative facts that the fall apart under scrutiny?

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NotYourAdviser t1_jbl6s6c wrote

A couple of years ago, ISU changed to the common application. This made it easier for students to click a box and their app would be turned into ISU along with other schools. Previous to that, students needed to specifically find and fill out ISU's application. I wonder what span of time this data was taken from, and at what point we were in the common app process. Generally, numbers with the common app are higher but yield could be less stable.

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