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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]* Get rid of the essays.  They can and are being gamed.
* Tests - Provide everyone the opportunity to prep online.  My kid used Khan Academy and one other online course (Prepexpert).  Khan Academy is free.  Prepexpert cost about $600.  Pay poor kids to take these courses.  
* ECs - [b]Make a list of "real" ECs - Jobs, community service, ECs related to your major IN SCHOOL, etc[/b].  I'm sure others can come up with an equitable list.  
* Assign a certain percentage of seats to poor people and "true" URMs (Native Americans and Blacks with slave ancestry on both sides of the family).  Others should be covered by the "poor" category.

Can colleges be forced to do play?  
- State schools can, by Government mandate.
- The so-called Private schools will play along if you threaten to remove their tax subsidy (i.e. make them pay tax on their income).[/quote]

Wow. Re: the bold, you'd say that kids who want to go to college would have to ignore doing any ECs they actually enjoy, or which fulfill them personally, because they'd have to spend that time on "jobs, community service, ECs related to your [college] major [in high school]." I guess you can counter that kids can do whatever they want but shouldn't put anything on college applications except the three categories you list.

1. There are not necessarily "ECs related to" a kid's desired [i]college[/i] major available at the kid's [i]high school[/i] or elsewhere; and many high schoolers don't yet know what they plan to choose as a major so how would they rack up those college-major-related ECs in high school? 
2. Community service is already a high school requirement in many school systems. 
3. Jobs? Are you one of the adults who believes there are endless jobs out there for high school kids? Do you have any idea how much time advanced HS courses can take up even on weekends? Sure, there are kids who work jobs and also take the hardest HS courses and succeed. But it's not a given that having a job is doable, or desirable in EVERY case. It certainly shouldn't affect a kid's college admission if he or she couldn't work a job for pay while in HS. Some kids live in areas where there aren't jobs for the asking. Maybe you're unaware of that....

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Those were just suggestions.  See the sentence that follows " [i]I'm sure others can come up with an equitable list. "[/i].[/quote]

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