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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only things colleges should look at are grades, test scores,    And maybe an open ended question exam of some sorts. The brightest should get into the best colleges, and that’s it.
The rest can go to less rigorous ones. [/quote]

Best colleges will end up 70% Asian 20% white 3% Hispanic 2% black and 5% other like TJ high school and screams of rage about lack of racial equity will ensue.[/quote]

NP - I am fine with a college being 70%+ Asian if those are the individuals who are most deserving to be there[/quote]

Agree.[/quote]

Yes[/quote]

Part of what makes an elite school elite (like Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc.) is who your classmates are and the connections you make through roommates, dinner club, etc. You are attending school with people whose parents or grandparents were president (Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, Obama, Biden) or billionaire CEOs of companies or entertainment megastars. These are the connections that help make the school elite. If you take away the connected, high profile families and fill the school with kids just based on a test score and grades, the college becomes far less prestigious. I feel like people that want entrance to these schools to be test and GPA only are from other countries that have this sort of university entrance system. [/quote]

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