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>Academic performance can't be held equal because the various applicants are competing on playing fields that can differ radically Caltech manages to do this j

• brownbat 11y ago
  Interesting. Googling led me to a post[1] which claimed that Caltech uses a "pure meritocracy" and avoids consideration of race in admissions. hackuser's original post noted that there are race-based sorting effects outside of the admissions department. To that point, Caltech's admission policy, flaws or merits of it aside, is not a counterexample to hackuser's claim[2]. That's exactly the sort of system hackuser was talking about. [1] http://jadeluckclub.com/caltech-meritocracy-from-the-american-civil-rights-blog-this-is-what-a-meritocracy-looks-like/ http://jadeluckclub.com/caltech-meritocracy-from-the-america... [2] Which I took to be, essentially, "racial discrimination in admissions is inevitable due to selection factors beyond the control of admissions policies." EDIT: readability.