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the question is, why? why are they doing it? the real reason not the ostensible one.

• IshKebab 4y ago
  Money presumably. There's an extremely strong incentive for educational institutions to spend their long term reputation on short term financial gain by setting high fees and giving everyone a high grade. Basically everyone loves it except people who already graduated. And maybe employers, but employers tend to do their own tests because of the difficulty of comparing external test results across time and institutions.
• JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > question is, why? Discretionary admissions with social goals turns the university, and its administrators, into institutions with broad public remit.
• ljhlkjlkj 4y ago
  Probably three reasons: 1) They're trying to get ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, which will likely rule Ivies are discriminating against Asian candidates. 2) Elite cultural zeitgeist is in favor of discriminating against Asian and non-elite white candidates. 3) More subtly, the top Ivy admins are overwhelmingly Jewish, and they've likely received push back from Jewish alumni/donors, as Asians have displaced smart-but-unremarkable Jewish candidates. A recent Tablet article alluded to Asians displacing Jewish candidates, which has been an unreported theme in the Ivies over the last 20 years. Those three things are driving much of it.