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The best method of college entrance is whats done in east asia. China does the Gaokao (hard SAT), and students list their university preferences and filters stu
by ecshafer 3y ago
The best method of college entrance is whats done in east asia. China does the Gaokao (hard SAT), and students list their university preferences and filters students into colleges based on their score and their preferences. Japan takes entrance exams for a university. These seem like infinitely fairer methods than the US where they try and correct for disadvantage in a variety ways.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoIn the U.S.: go to shitty school, get shitty SAT score, disallowed from college. Repeat.
- w10-1 3y agoIn California: 10% of each shitty school gets in to the top-tier UC system
- alsaaro 3y agoChina uses an ethnic quota system for underrepresented minorities for university admissions, just like India and the United States (until today).
- AlanYx 3y agoChina practices affirmative action by giving certain ethnic minorities additional points on the gao kao. There's a good 2017 paper by Ding et. al. that explores the effect this has.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoAmerican schools are not looking to maximize academic success. They want to maximize career success because that's how prestige is measured. They're certainly not trying to be fair either, they're trying to maximize donations.