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[quote=Anonymous]It is never a good thing when criteria is less about objective measures like test scores and GPAs and more about opaque subjective ones, which can be used to mask a whole host of biases.

It is how "old boys club" employers traditionally kept out women and minorities. (Sure, they may have had better undergrad transcripts, but they just weren't "cultural fits")

I can't believe the same people who claim to be nonprejudicial are so quick to believe having lots of Asians at a school is a bad thing because they are all robotic violin players with Tiger Moms who won't add to the richness of a school community. This is racism, plain and simple.

If there are problems with tests or GPAs, fix the tests and grading systems.

In the meantime, I'm teaching my kids they have to be much better than the average to have a shot at a school, and even then, it isn't a meritocracy -- so don't stress. The system isn't fair, but life isn't fair. Just focus on controlling what's in your power to control.

That's what black parents have had to teach their kids for generations and now Asian and white parents must. Two wrongs, of course, don't make a right. But this is where we are.[/quote]

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