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[quote=Anonymous]Merit, as in academic or nonacademic achievements? Merit is primarily due to winning the genetic lottery. You need a certain amount of physical and mental health, as well as higher-order cognitive reasoning. Additionally, you need to apply yourself to achieve in the spheres valued by universities and develop a certain amount of work ethic. Is this correlated with family wealth? Yes, because if you're intelligent, it's probable at least one of your parents is intelligent and might have parlayed that into wealth, as well as opportunities for you to have activities in which to prove your capacity to achieve! But smarts also blossom in poor and unstable homes. They don't make it to college as often as middle class smart kids, though, due to lack of direction and opportunity. [/quote]
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