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Wick Sloane has good students at Bunker Hill Community College who could get into elite colleges, if only the spots weren't all filled by graduates of elite private high schools. He suggests that, since those elite students get an equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in high school, why not let their elite private high schools issue them with BAs? Thus opening up 75,000 spots for community college grades, like his students.

The outrage is the total feasibility, not the outlandishness, of my bachelor’s proposal. Everyone reading here knows that for these AP high schools a bachelor’s degree reflects the academic achievement of the graduates far more than the high school diploma these students are about to receive. Is this situation just? No way. For the sake of a few thousand students in community colleges, could we at least admit the folly in sending the most fortunate cohort of students to college twice, while millions of others, just as able, may never finish college at all?