Square the circle: how are acceptances harder to get than ever yet basic skills are at their lowest?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because parents and businesses have over optimized the process. The SATs use to be a test of what you actually learned and retained. Now folks take prep classes and review 6weeks-months before the exam then quickly forget everything.

Colleges can stop that simply by saying they will ignore SAT scores in excess of, say, 1500. They will ignore AP exams beyond one history exam, one science, one math , one CS, and one "other." They will ignore classes taken beyond AP or college freshman equivalents.

They are already doing that under the guise of holistic admissions and discriminating against qualified students and pandering to a specific racial group for perceived social acceptance.