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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sports are also one area where merit actually means something. Colleges can't agree on whether they care about test scores but pretty much all but Caltech agree on getting the best athletes they can who the AO will admit.[/quote]

Yes, there is no merit to any other EC. Only sports.

:roll: [/quote]

I agree that more colleges should give far more weight to other ECs and seek out the best debaters, actors, singers, gamers, coders, and roboticists. I think schools would be better off if they did this versus trying to look too exclusively at grades, sometimes test scores, and leadership for most of their classes. 
The problem is more with colleges not valuing other ECs much at all (or at least not enough to involve admissions support outside of edge cases).
DCUM has the problem statement wrong in my opinion, though I would agree that some of the rich-kid sports that never bring people together on campus or generate much positive recognition for a school externally, should be dropped from being considered any different than playing the flute or singing in admissions. [/quote]

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