If we are talking Merit - that to me means they have exemplary grades. The above sounds to me more like a free for all. A 2.0 isn't even top 30% of a graduating class .... I would have a hard time footing that bill. There may be circumstances where a GED would be acceptable but those would be few and far between - some hardship case.
A quick google shows 3.84 ..... https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/UT-Austin-admission-requirements
It's not for us to come up with the requirements... it's the schools? They are the ones determining the necessary requirements to ensure that their students are capable of passing their courses? Exactly. So why would that change? Colleges with advanced degrees will require higher GPA's, others won't.
I'm referring to the students once they were accepted and the grades they have once there. And of course UT does not accept that haha. You have to maintain certain grades for a pell grant. I would just want at least slightly stricter criteria than that. And some type of merit to receive it in the first place. With perhaps a way to work towards that if you didn't qualify initially. But like I said at the beginning of this discussion I would need to read about other systems to have a solid opinion on this.
Yeah maybe somebody from Germany could comment, @Yung-T ? I know Germany not only offers free college to its own citizens, but to international students who have the equivalent of a high school degree and whom are fluent in either German or English. Americans can legitimately go to Germany and study in English for free. Same for Norway, Iceland and another handful of countries. My wife got accepted to universities in both Iceland and Germany, never went through with either but we were considering it.
Why isn't it up to us to determine those requirements when we are paying the bill. If you left it up to the school - and they know we are paying the bill the requirements would be next to nothing. Look , I've moved off of NO to I'd consider a merit based system where we have a required GPA threshold for acceptance (along with maintaining a certain grade level in the course). Your requirements are ... wide open. There's no merit involved here. Anyone can sign up. If you want taxpayers to fund this , you have to require these people be top 20-25% of their graduating class .... They have to earn it. A 2.0GPA is .... ~75%. Where's the merit when the national average is 3.0 ?!
Yes. How long it says viable outside a body is certainly a factor but that is why I will say the very good sanitation practices of places like Singapore and Hong Kong help to stop the spread. I've brought this up several times. There are wet markets in those countries but I'm not kidding at all when I say I trust them more than I do Kroger. Even though they have live animals and animals that many Americans would consider exotic they are still kept clean and more importantly that cleanliness is enforced.
The question you have asked in bold is something I ask for everybody who is playing the disgruntled moderate act, why would anyone do that yet we have several posters who do. I will readily admit I don't know your perspective but I don't understand the logic in claiming Bernie supporters would not get anything under a Biden administration and that is a reason not to vote. I don't have a team and its funny that you think I do. I don't hate republicans and I agree with some of their ideas at least before Trump took over the party. At the end of the day I don't begrudge you your opinion, I just think it's strange that you think this way.
Makes sense... with even less opportunity to run a campaign under Coronavirus and the huge lead Biden already has...
I understand what he's done actually. His supporters are very passionate, and he gave them a much needed cooling off period. Also gave himself a chance to leverage what he could to impact Bidens campaign, and potential presidency. I think Bernie knew he was done after Super Tuesday, and this has been a strategic bow out. Good for him. Probably good for the party.
One thing I'm wondering about why Sanders chose to drop out now instead of a few weeks ago when he got demolished in MI. I think there is something to him giving his supporters a cooling off period. He probably needed that himself. I also think that his supporters and probably many in his campaign did actually believe that the DNC would drop Biden and reward Sanders. I think that was one of the most far fetched ideas but consider how much it got banded about on social media and by people like Krystal Ball and Cenk Uygur I can see why some might've thought that. This particular day I think the WI primary showed to Sanders that him continuing to run might actually result in harming the health of his supporters. I think the partisan way it was handled by the WI GOP legislature, WI Supreme Court and USSC might've also been a stark reminder to Sanders of who the real enemy is. It's not the DNC and Joe Biden but the Conservative establishment.
Not surprising. I do find it funny that Trump is making an appeal to the Squad to come over in a "Trade!" I suspect there will be a few Sanders supporters that do support Trump like in 2016. I don't think that they will make be significant but I also think this is a close race and as I said in the Bill Maher hyptothetical thread Trump needs to be defeated and not close. https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...s-to-join-gop-after-senator-suspends-campaign Trump urges Sanders supporters to join GOP after senator suspends campaign President Trump on Wednesday urged Sen. Bernie Sanders's supporters to join the Republican Party after the independent Vermont senator announced he was suspending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Trump also thanked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), reiterating his belief that she may have taken away enough votes from Sanders on Super Tuesday last month to cost him states. Warren finished third or in some cases a distant fourth in each state Joe Biden won on Super Tuesday. "Bernie Sanders is OUT! Thank you to Elizabeth Warren. If not for her, Bernie would have won almost every state on Super Tuesday!" Trump tweeted. "This ended just like the Democrats & the DNC wanted, same as the Crooked Hillary fiasco," he added. "The Bernie people should come to the Republican Party, TRADE!" Sanders's decision to suspend his campaign paves the way for Biden to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. The president has sought for months to stoke tensions within the Democratic Party around Sanders's candidacy. He has repeatedly suggested the party establishment was attempting to "steal" the nomination from the progressive senator, though Wednesday's tweet marked his most explicit outreach to potentially disaffected Sanders supporters. Trump continued to tweet as Sanders delivered remarks about his decision. The president questioned the senator's decision to remain on the ballot to collect delegates and exert influence over the Democratic platform, and he later suggested some of Sanders' most progressive allies would not back Biden. "Can’t see AOC plus 3 supporting Sleepy Joe!" Trump tweeted, referencing Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). Pressley supported Warren's candidacy, while the other three lawmakers were Sanders surrogates. Trump and Sanders — whom the president has dubbed "Crazy Bernie" — have some overlapping policy views on trade and both rode populist waves in 2016 to become frontrunners in their respective primaries. But Sanders has been among the harshest critics of Trump's presidency, labeling him a racist and a liar and more recently chastising him for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Updated at 12:21 p.m.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court spot may have been key to Bernie staying in. Dems might have even asked him to stay in to hopefully drive a little bit more traffic to the polls. Would fit perfectly as to why he's dropping out today.
To clarify, he's not proposing A trade. He's encouraging Sanders people that are aligned with him on trade issues (ie, blue-collar midwest) to join him.
AOC has actually become a lot more strategic and has firmly aligned herself with the party...so yeah, not much chance she aligns with Trump. It's kind of silly of him to say that as the GOPs whole narrative against her and the others is to not respect them at all and there is Trump showing them some respect and giving them credibility. I know that is obvious but it is something to point out for Bernie supporters that AOC is still there and she's taking a different approach now to get progressive ideas through now after seeing that Bernie's way didn't exactly work.
Her way won't work either if the politicians who benefit from the status quo still have basic human traits such as self-interest.
Disagree. Her way works if those politicians see that her policies keep them in power. The old way of attacking the status quo threatens and scares them and forces them to fight back, while her new way is trying to bring them along with her generation. Bernie's way really hasn't worked, and it is smart on her to realize that and move forward with a more cooperative strategy.
