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How other schools will suffer? Endowments from rich parents? Being rich does not mean your kid is smart and these gifted schools should be very selective to who
by CodeSheikh 10y ago
How other schools will suffer? Endowments from rich parents? Being rich does not mean your kid is smart and these gifted schools should be very selective to whom they admit.
- conjectures 10y ago> Being rich does not mean your kid is smart But it does mean you can pay to get them tutored to jump through hoops, and generally push them harder. There's a very strong relationship between wealth and elite college admission for example. Which is down to culture and opportunity as much as gifts and talents. If being selective means controlling for socioeconomic background when assessing potential - then I'd be more of a cheerleader for it.
- whorleater 10y ago> If being selective means controlling for socioeconomic background when assessing potential So...affirmative action like in colleges but for earlier forms of education?
- iplaw 10y agoI love how you put this. To be fair, the TAG Magnet did have race-based quotas until very recently. Let's just say that the school is now ... less diverse. Although, the 1% "other", which encompassed all East and West Asian, has now makes up roughly one-third of the enrollment. The former court ordered 33/33/33/1 resulted in rejecting some of the most meritorious students.
- erroneousfunk 10y agoThere's a very high correlation between household income and SAT scores: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and...