A year ago or so when China did a major crackdown on ed-tech and the private tutoring and education sector I read a lot of outraged stuff about it, but this kin

A year ago or so when China did a major crackdown on ed-tech and the private tutoring and education sector I read a lot of outraged stuff about it, but this kind of thing is the logical end result. A 17 year old writing a fake paper on chick-fil-A, 'peer-reviewed' by some non-existent degree mill to get a leg up on completely opaque college admissions. Just make it simple. Stick with the SAT tests. There is nothing more equitable than standardized, rigorous testing. It will not be perfectly equitable because people do differ in their abilities, but they do differ less on that front than their parents wallets do. Which is of course why it's the more privileged households that love lobbying for these bogus qualifications instead of just doing merit based tests. Just remember a simple fact, intellect is distributed on a Bell curve, money follows a power law distribution. Whenever you're concerned that merit based processes may have unequal results, anything that can be turned into pay-to-win is going to be worse.