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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from people’s (understandable) desire to have the most opportunity available to their kids, I think a lot of disagreement on measures like these stems from disagreement about what the purposes of college admission are. Is admission a reward for the best academic performance in high school? Is admission a vehicle for finding the people who will achieve success later in life with the college’s help? Is admission a way to identify people who will become leaders in their communities and train them? Is admission a way to curate a community of students with diverse interests and backgrounds?

These purposes differ by college and often colleges are considering a mix of the above. There is often frustration from students and their parents where they see students with lower stats admitted to a college. But that views college admission as only serving the first purpose. And even then, academic achievement should—in the views of many—be assessed in context, including the resources a student had available to them and the obstacles they faced in achieving success.[/quote]

+1  [/quote]

To some extent, maybe, but elite schools never want to stop being elite.  So they’ll always need a critical mass of kids with top grades and scores. [/quote]

There will be more than enough kids with top grades, scores AND adversity points.  That's why the MC/UMC --who are already feel they are being unfairly squeezed out of elites due to not qualifying for financial aid but not being able to pay 70k/yr--hate this even more.  I can understand their view though I don't agree.  My dream is that this will  be the straw that makes everyone ease off on the mystique of elite colleges, stop hyper-focusing on optimizing for a distant goal for their kids, find a neighborhood they like that works for them and support the local schools rather than trying to crowd into the "best" one, and live lives a bit more in the present in a more varied SES community, but I'm not holding my breath...[/quote]

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