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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless Yale plans to dramatically increase in size, the only way to end the “murky admissions practices” is to be open about conducting a lottery for everyone over a certain benchmark. There is no fair way to pick a mere 2% from a pool of highly-qualified 17 year olds. [/quote]

Or the colleges could start demanding more tail end differentiation between students on the SAT.

There are a thousand perfect SAT scores every year. That number used to be in the dozens.

Tsinghua and Beijing do not have trouble selecting the top 0.05% students among 13 million kids based on the Gaokao, which has never seen a perfect score in its history.[/quote]

They don't by any means achieve what you just said. A single test with a single sitting is guaranteed to not achieve what you asserted just due to normal variation.[/quote]

On average they do.
When the tails are thin, there is less single sitting variation
They are free to take the test as many times as they like.  
It doesn't usually change enough to make a difference.

It is certainly at least as reliable and just as one that relies on legacy status and extracurriculars.

Oddly enough, China does have racial preferences in college admissions.[/quote]

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