We'll never have a perfect way to measure merit, but that doesn't justify the status quo. It would likely reject both students for a third student that checks t

We'll never have a perfect way to measure merit, but that doesn't justify the status quo. It would likely reject both students for a third student that checks the right intersectional boxes, even if coming from a more privileged upbringing than the other two students. We should be constantly improving our ways of measuring merit, not throwing up our hands and pretending it's meaningless to try.