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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it is true that upwards of 50% of the accepted students were coming out of test prep schools then it is obvious that the students who were not enrolled in the test prep schools were disadvantaged.

You can't fault those families for being able to afford the enrichment,  or at the test prep schools for being so good, but you can't in full knowledge of their effectiveness act like all of those testers didn't have an advantage going into the exam hall.[/quote]

Apply your same philosophy in sports. Any one why did not touch a baseball bat in his entire life because he had to focus on academics is at a total disadvantage on getting selected into a baseball team. Others who worked hard on the field for years because their parents encouraged them has a clear advantage in sports over kids who did not focus on sports but on academics.

Can we fault the family that could not spend time with kids in the baseball field so that kids can get selected into baseball team?

Why not select the kids who was at a disadvantage in the team? [/quote]

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