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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of you seem to suppose that the mission of MIT and other elite universities is to take the most elite HS students and make them more elite.  I’m not sure that is, or should be the case. Kids coming from elite high schools with top grades can get their best education at dozens and dozens of American universities.  For those kids, education is much more a function of input, than the system itself.  The best use of SAT/ACT is to screen out.  Probably 80-90% of kids with 4.0s can do the work at MIT.  The test can screen out for the anomaly who is really not prepared.  It should not be a race to get 1570 to qualify.  [/quote]

You clearly have not taken economics in college. These universities have the best resources and they are not unlimited resources. The best way to help a country is to efficiently allocate scarce resources to those who will exploit and benefit from these resources the most. This means matching the most academically gifted kids with the most academically gifted institutions, specially when these institutions take massive subsidies from the state.

But who am I kidding.... This has never been about what is good for the long term prosperity of the country. It has been about virtue signaling about how good some privileged white folks are by misallocating resources so that they are not called racist[/quote]

If this is what you truly believe then why aren’t you railing against athletic recruiting (which MIT does), legacy or donor admits?  Could that be because they overwhelmingly benefit the only class of people you think “deserves” admission?  Rich whites?

The pool of smart, talented kids far exceeds the number of open spots. There is no rational way to order applicants from 1-50,000. You seem to do it by automatically assuming anyone who isn’t white (and maybe Asian) belongs at the bottom of the list. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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