Lies, Damned Lies, and College Admissions: An Inquiry into Education

Every year, Ivy League colleges tell prospective students that, "Here, you learn even more from other students than you do from your classes." What if that were just a roundabout way to say, "Our teaching is pretty mediocre "?
What if, in addition to providing mediocre teaching, colleges were extracting exorbitant sums of money from students, their families, and American taxpayers?

What if the college admissions process had transformed high school education into a series of pointless hoops fo...