Thorndike’s ideas gave birth to the notion of gifted students, honors students, special needs students, and educational tracks. He supported the use of grades as a convenient metric for ranking students’ overall talent and believed that colleges should admit those students with the best GPAs and highest standardized test scores since (according to Galton’s idea of rank) he believed they were not only the most likely to succeed in college, but most likely to succeed in whatever profession they chose.
and here we are: ore inefficient than ever
