Agreed: if you want to get into uni then you have to show that you can do the things that a uni wants you to do. Those aren't necessarily the most objectively

Agreed: if you want to get into uni then you have to show that you can do the things that a uni wants you to do. Those aren't necessarily the most objectively sensible or intellectual things (I found uni painful at times in part becauase of that), but that's not the point.