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[quote=Anonymous]ED is not going to help a merely good student get admitted to a very selective institution. 
ED is exploitative and rewards universities who can persuade rich families to apply to their institution as a target, not a reach.

The alternative is to create an academic meritocracy based on nationally-normed exams, which is what most countries do. In Europe and Canada and Latin America, it's going pretty well.

In East Asia, they took it to extremes. Over decades, it led to the worst suicide risk in the word for Japanese teens, and the development of an entire industry of prep schools after normal school. In Korea, Kindergartners go to prep school after their regular school day. Legislation had to be passed so that prep schools would end at 11pm, because parents were being persuaded to enroll their kids in stuff that continued beyond that.

There is no win-win in a society that prizes only the top outcomes above all else. 
It's the East Asian mindset that needs to change to accept a wide variety of educational experiences. I feel the USA and Europe are not in danger of going too far in that direction, because they do not have the demographic, economic and cultural pressures that Japan and Korea have. Please remember that it's only a small subset of US families that are willing participants in the race to the Ivies. Most families aren't thinking like this at all!

- Japanese
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