Philosophical-the future of B&M universities

[Ideas]

Why do not more people do what we do? I suppose many don't know about this option? The question is, if they knew about it, would they do it this way?

I think changes to the system will be fairly slow. I think we will see more of the online, self-paced, shorter terms and schools allowing testing out of 1/2. 

But there will still be lots who don't look into the PLA and testing out. It will be right there on their school's website, sometimes on the front page, but they won't really care to look into it. I think it's partly because of some students not liking timed tests. So testing out seems harder to them. I think others know that school policies can be difficult to deal with, and they just want to follow the neat plan they made with their advisor.


Even more so, I think some people are interested, but they give up after one or two tries. It's harder for many people to motivate themselves without a deadline. So they'll sign up and they can take the test anytime in the next 90 days. Well after 70 days they haven't done a thing. Now they don't know if they can pass, and they are busy with their traditional classes and other things. Etc. I guess it also comes down to poor time-management and less self-motivation, especially in the first year students. But basically, they lose a bunch of their test-out options after the first year.

I think that right now, a parent can still help assure their child's success by paying for the top ranked schools. It's changing, but I think those top ranked programs will still have a good foothold for a while, and that it's worth it. I think that everyone else has to fight for a job sometimes, by doing things like networking, using LinkedIn strategies, etc. The top ranked ones can kind of just walk right in. (You know they have decent enough interview skills and other things, because they got into the top ranked program.) I think the only way a top ranked one doesn't do well is if they get below a 3.0.