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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you 9:59.

We've lost all perspective in this debate.

Legacies, uber-wealthy buying their way in through side or back doors, faux-disabled (or exaggerated disabilities) people are a tiny, tiny fraction of the college population.

The effects of the more mundane advantages are widespread and rarely questioned, perhaps because so many have them.[/quote]

Ah, but the sanctity of the SN parents who says the extended time is a level playing field but it actually is not, it gave a leg up to those who got more time than they should have.  Poster 9:59 was already on 2nd or 3rd base to afford all the testing and for his/her kid to go to a good school system. It is okay then then to have an advantage of the kid in the poorer neighborhoods, immigrants etc?  The “as long as my kid benefit club”....[/quote]

It's a more level playing field than any other part of this process. There is nothing limiting how much money the UMC parent can throw at tutors or test instruction or how many times children can take the test. There is a limit on accommodations and who can get those accommodations. Your child has to undergo testing, has to be found to need accommodations, has to request accommodations from the testing company, and then they have to be granted by the testing company.

So you'll yell about the thing that's regulated fairly strictly, and just let it pass all the benefits UMC kids get. Those kids getting tutors and going to SAT camps? There are more of them than there are kids who shouldn't be getting accommodations who are.  But you're OK with those benefits, even though they harm kids without as much money. Because who cares about poor kids! You only care about the fact that there might be a tiny, tiny handful of super rich families who have learned how to game the disability system (oops, and they're going to jail...). You're fine with them gaming the athletic benefits (no complaints about the fake sailing?), you're fine with them benefiting from legacy status. You're fine with them being able to donate to the school to get a place. But those kids with special needs? They're the problem, they're preventing your kid from getting in!

I bet you also complain about people sitting in wheelchairs in line while you're standing. Completely unfair! They should have to stand, too! They're being lazy and aren't as dedicated a line-stander as you are![/quote]

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