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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US college admission is by and large not merit driven - full stop. At least from a purely academic standpoint. Sure many students are admitted based on the merits of their athletic skills, or the play an instrument well that the school band needs or they can help fill a bucket set-up to fill a social engineering desire. Yes, there is a bucket for academic excellence because schools want to tout the number of Fulbright scholars they produce or Nobel laureates. But unfortunately today that is one of the smaller buckets at most schools. That is why truly bright and academically gifted kids can get shut out of the top 20 or 30 schools. The transparency exists, people just can’t accept that the US is no longer a meritocracy and colleges are businesses that bend to the will of the masses. [/quote] Yes, they can do whatever they want, then just that I don't want a penny of my tax dollar goes there.[/quote]
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