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[quote=Anonymous]Can someone decipher for me what his point is.  I get that standardized testing favors the privileged, and privilege can show through on all components of the application, but what exactly is the author proposing be done about it? He says that someone you expect to be a superstar may flunk out, and the person you don’t expect will do well ends up doing well. I think that’s the far more the exception than the rule. At the end of the day, someone who’s endured the rigor and expectations for college prep is going to be more likely to make it through four years at a rigorous university.  And someone who is industrious may be college bound, but I think it would be a difficult row to hoe at HYP etc. (this would be true for my DC included).  Is the author taking the position that colleges should let in students who might not have the expected stats, i.e., are not academically prepared) to better give them a fair shake?  How do you raise those entering freshmen up, without bringing the university’s high standards down?  Besides perhaps simply justifying his own university’s admissions philosophy, what bigger picture, tenable argument is this article actually trying to make?[/quote]

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