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[quote=Anonymous]Speaking of "bizarrely racist." The big mistake some of you are making is defining "achievement" and "intelligence" as high GPA and SAT scores.

First, we all know that neither SAT scores and GPAs is a measure of pure intelligence. Both can be improved by study and practice. If SAT study prep can raise scores by 100-300 points, then many of those 2350s were 2100 kids with parents who could afford the prep classes and who stayed on their butts to make them memorize vocab words. Very different from "genius."

Second, the top colleges get 20,000 applicants who have near-perfect SATs and GPAs. In fact, if they wanted, they could fill their 3,000 slots with WASPS with near-perfect SATs and GPAs. But colleges don't fill their classes with high-scoring WASPS. However, they do need to look for additional things to whittle this pile down to 3,000 admits. Also, they don't want classes full of boring grinds whose main accomplishment is to be able to sit at a chair and study for hours every day. This is why kids need something [b]more [/b]than near-perfect SATs and GPAs, and why colleges look for artistic creativity and leadership. This point has been made a million times on DCUM, yet some of you simply cannot grasp it.

Again, the mere ability to plant your butt at a desk and study for four years of high school is not the correct definition of "intelligence" because it's more a measure of hard work than intelligence. Nor does it does this create some sort of "entitlement" to Harvard admission for each and every one of the 20,000 kids who has managed to earn high scores, because Harvard simply doesn't have enough places. How hard is this to understand?[/quote]

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