Your perspective assumes we have universal access to schools of at least comparably good quality giving a proper education without any grade inflation, bogus cr

Your perspective assumes we have universal access to schools of at least comparably good quality giving a proper education without any grade inflation, bogus credits to make graduation rates look higher, and uniform standards for teachers and students. This is not remotely the case in the USA. At some point, we have to start using a common yardstick to compare apples to apples that had at least the rudiments of an unbiased statistical sampling. The SAT does a decent job.