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From: jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.edu,eunet.general,misc.misc
Subject: Re: University entrance regulation
Summary: Entrance Standards Can be Circumvented
Keywords: What kind of regulation does your university have?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 03:11:15 GMT
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I'm not an official with Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, but
I know that people need either a high school diploma or a general education
certificate.
 
The ad-hoc admission standards should be eliminated for the good of everyone.
Even when there are standards in place, there must be some overseer to make
sure that people can't circumvent them.
 
I have personal knowledge that this occurs at Wayne State - particularily
in the Computer Science Department. The university bulletin states that a
student must have at least a 3.0 G.P.A. to be admitted to the Master's 
Program, but I know that there are many students (especially foreign
students) who have GPA's under 3.0, some of them with 1.5's and 1.6's.
The only time that the CS department pulls out the rule book is if someone
in charge of admissions has something personal against the applicant, or
is a friend of someone who has such a grudge. The moral of the story:
"Be sure to have a very strong overseer".


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