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Actually the tests help the poor to get admitted against quotas. 100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they fi

Actually the tests help the poor to get admitted against quotas. 100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they finally were able to get over the quotas was when universities started accepting the SAT for admission, thus making admissions merit-based. This is easy history to look up on the web, so the reality is that merit-based exams help to overcome quotas. I wonder if now the universities will re-instate the quotas for Jews, since Jews are overrepresented in universities compared with the proportion of those that appear in US population. Any opinions about this?

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throwawaysea 5y ago
Private universities already have quotas for Jews, Asians, Whites, and other groups they claim are over represented. They won’t call it that, but policies like affirmative action, holistic admissions, and so on are all euphemisms for quotas by ethnicity or other demographic trait. No one stops to consider that maybe there are cultural and behavioral practices that lead to these merit gap. Now the UC system will do the same by simply banning the measurement of aptitude. It lets them regress student demographics towards a desired distribution without controversy.