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Yeah I see this take all the time. Admissions offices are allowed to take a student's means into account! So in deciding between two students with equal SAT sco
by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Yeah I see this take all the time. Admissions offices are allowed to take a student's means into account! So in deciding between two students with equal SAT scores, one from a Greenwich private school and one from South Tucson, the one from Tucson is the more impressive student.
Affirmative action was misguided because it assumed that because one student was Korean and the other Mexican, the Mexican kid must be disadvantaged. Besides the fact that there's an inherently racist worldview baked into that, Newsflash! There are tons of poor Korean kids and rich Mexicans!
- nancyhn 3y agoSpot on. I don't see why this is so hard for people to comprehend and why they are fighting the obvious. That very basic level of nuance tends to be missing from these conversations.
- infamouscow 3y ago> I don't see why this is so hard for people to comprehend and why they are fighting the obvious. It's because these people only see the world through the one-dimensional lens of skin color. Further, it's an attractive way to view the world when you're a complete idiot with nothing of substance to offer society. It leads these people to infecting society with parasitic and fallacious ideas that you see manifested in the extremes of both political parties.
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- criddell 3y agoWhy is SAT score a good way to decide which student is more deserving of a spot? There should be some SAT score floor. But beyond that other factors should take over. If the floor is at n and two applicants appear - one with a score of 1.1n and the other 1.2n, I don’t think that’s enough information to decide who should get the spot.
- Brusco_RF 3y ago> Why is SAT score a good way to decide which student is more deserving of a spot? Name a better way.
- dropofwill 3y agoSAT score floor + lottery?
- Brusco_RF 3y agoWhat makes you think that is better?
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- criddell 3y agoVox had an article about college lotteries earlier this year you might find interesting: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/4/19/23689402/college-admissions-lottery-ivy-league https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/4/19/23689402/colleg...
- Brusco_RF 3y ago[flagged]
- SkyBelow 3y agoLottery is a metric that can't be gamed, if implemented correctly. It may not ever be the best system, but it also can't end up being what was a better system that was gamed into a worst system. It provides a certain level of consistent mediocracy between various other systems which rise and fall as they are gamed.
- golemiprague 3y ago[dead]