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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]college teacher here. System has created kids who don't care about learning but do care about grades and prizes. These aren't the kids elite colleges want, so they are looking for ways to find kids who care about learning (and they are looking to find smart kids of all ses brackets). But they have yet any way to measure caring about learning and their measure for smarts skews for kids from a certain high ses. [/quote] The reality is that in order to be perceived as prestigious, elite schools must continue pumping out ultra successful graduates. Unfortunately a lot of high scorers come from immigrant families that don't have the right connections to boost them to influential jobs, so they get stuck in middle management. Colleges need a politically correct way to accept fewer of these high achieving, stable career kind of kids - ergo, holistic admissions. [/quote]
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