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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Yup.

Universities should only enroll based on academic merit.
No extra-curriculars.

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Nope.

Universities should only enroll who they want on their campus.  Private ones, at minimum. They get to choose.

You can believe they are choosing poorly, but the idea that you know what is better for them than they do is preposterous.[/quote]

Most universities in the world select on academics and don't look AT ALL at extra-curriculars, poor ignorant PP. The US is one of the few to have the incredibly unfair and murky system they have. My kids will go to non-US unis, but I wish, for students like OP's and others, that US universities could stop their completely non-transparent and subjective application process. Just like the supposed "right" to bear arms and the consequences on gun deaths, or gouging corporate middlemen driving life-saving medications sky-high, to name but two other examples, Americans have been brain-washed into thinking these things are set in stone and can never be changed... when actually they're NOT normal and CAN and SHOULD be changed.

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You can call me ignorant, but you are the one whose reading comprehension fails.

My point was that the private universities get to pick who they want, and the fact that there are other non-sequitur inequities in the world has no bearing on that simple fact.

To be clear, I am not the child of an athlete, and I have an unhooked kid at an ivy.  And if I ran the zoo, it might be different.  But I don't, and neither do you.

They know what is best for them and their mission.  Better than you do. End period.

I do give you credit for making the non-hypocritical choice of not patronizing them, though.[/quote]

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