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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I could wave a magic wand ...

1) Eliminate activities as a consideration. Do not even have it as an option on the Common or Coalition App -- no preferences for athletes, ballet stars, musical prodigies, marching band members, debaters etc.

Schools can offer these activities to anyone in the freshman class who tries out for them, like high school.

2) Blind admission files, with the exception of perhaps geography and gender (same as with an academic journal; no one knows who the author is).

No names on apps, no interviews with applicants. The record must stand on its own. Recommendations and calls only accepted from teachers or employers.
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THIS x a million.[/quote]

What would be in the actual application? What would they be judged on? SATs obviously aren't a good idea as they can be easily faked or bribed. Grades are inflated. So what basis would be used?[/quote]

At Oxbridge, they look at test scores and transcripts and then finalists are invited to campus where they sit with actual professors who ask them (can you believe it?) Actual Questions about the Subject they want to study.
Nobody gets in because they wrote a funny essay about eating chicken mcnuggets or using a porta potty.  Nobody gets in with a fabricated moving story about making tacos with Abuelita.  The people who get in to study math 
have to actually show that they have some knowledge and interest in math.  What a novel idea! [/quote]

I am from Eastern Europe and our system is even simpler - to get into college (a specific one) you need to pass entrance exam for that major. The exams are very hard, getting 100% in all 2-3 subjects required is impossible. No smart and savvy kids can hack this without very thorough preparation.[/quote]

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