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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its clearly terrible if colleges are grading Asians down on the soft skills bc of bias. Do they have criteria for how they rate things like "positive personality" or other non-academic attributes.  It is 100% valid to consider these traits for admissions but they have a process for doing do that isnt lets cut out students we dont like to favor white ppl.

At the same time the argument that [b]the only way[/b] for Harvard to have an unbiased admissions is to "considered only academic achievement" is clearly off. The system we have looks beyond academics bc wider world does too (including ever office ive been in).

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The only universal metric that all college applicants share is the SAT and ACT. Everything else is subjective including GPA- weighted vs unweighted, some schools are more challenging than others, etc. So why not have cut-off scores for the SAT and ACT? For example, Harvard only considers applicants whose SAT score is 1500 (out of 1600) or higher. After that, Harvard can use other criteria ("soft" skills, ECs, sports, GPA, teacher recs, etc) to select their students. Other schools can choose their own cut-off scores.

The main issue is that Asian students need much higher SAT/ACT scores than white, Hispanic, and black students to be admitted to the same schools. By having a cut-off score, the school would create a baseline for its students using the only metric that is common to all students. It would also ensure that one group isn't held to an unfairly high standard by holding all applicants to the same standard. [/quote]
No. By relying only on baseline test scores, you encourage students to spend their entire pre-college life studying to take a test at the expense of developing as a person... wait, that’s what happens now and we get a bunch of robots complaining about not getting in. [/quote]

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