The Case Against Admissions Lotteries
The radical idea is appealing in theory but useless in practice.
Chronicle illustration May 6, 2021
“In the interests of putting the concept of ‘equality of educational opportunity’ into practice, [colleges] might want to consider abandoning altogether the use of grades and tests in admissions, and instituting instead a lottery system for choosing among their applicants.” So wrote the eminent education scholar Alexander Astin in a
Scienceletter more than 50 years ago. Proposals for lottery admissions to college have surfaced countless times since then, appearing in the pages of
A key fact about nearly all these proposals is that they have been intended for America’s most selective institutions, not the nearly 600 four-year colleges and universities with open-door policies or the additional 700 with acceptance rates greater than 75 percent (as of 2018-19). A small number of institutions with acceptance rates below
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