Is tuition-free public higher education possible while increasing admission and academic standards?

I see both sides of the argument regarding tuition-free (taxpayer-funded) public higher education. One of the arguments opponents make is that if public higher education were to become tuition-free, then standards would fall as more people would end up going to college. But theoretically, couldn't this be offset by increasing admissions standards? Maybe even adopting a tiered system where different percentiles of students (based on grades, test scores, etc.) can only gain admission to specified tiers of schools? In other words, a tier for the best students, another tier for great, a tier for average, etc.

Submitted January 26, 2020 at 08:47AM by YankeePharaoh https://ift.tt/2tSYk4f