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Shouldn't hard work get rewarded instead of genetics? But even in the model you suggest, you're not rewarding "hard work", you're rewarding test scores. Not t
by kenjackson 12y ago
Shouldn't hard work get rewarded instead of genetics?
But even in the model you suggest, you're not rewarding "hard work", you're rewarding test scores. Not the same thing. As my old professor would say, "Don't tell me you studied hard. I don't care how hard you studied."
In many regards, all these metrics are arbitrary. I wonder if there is a utilitarian perspective on college admission metrics.
- bane 12y agoYeah, you are absolutely correct. But nobody ever seems to have come up with a better way to sort out regular snowflakes from special ones, especially in a scalable way.