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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, maybe he's right. A black kid with same exact app would def have had a better chance.   And I can a colleges POV too. We want diversity.

But what about athletes? Athlete's have even more of a leg up over, say, a musician with same amount of hours into their EC.  I see the colleges POV here -- we want better teams -- but how is it even relevant?  Very few teams make money.  Why not say we want more Oscar winners. [/quote]

Athletes tend to be white, and white people tend to pay full fare. 
Also, the school needs to have enough people on their team to make an actual team. You can't have just 3 people on the lacrosse team. 
Read the book "Who Gets in Where and Why". Very interesting.
The college tour is called the "million dollar walk" because all the school needs is 4 kids who fall in love with the school and Ka-ching! A million right there.
If the school didn't have enough religion majors last year, they will go after religion majors.

After reading the book I'm pretty disgusted. They are not looking for academic excellence but a "community". You are paying 1/4 million for your kid to flesh out their "community". I've started looking at schools in other countries. The UK doesn't do this "holistic" BS, they want to look at your academic stats and your essay has to be about your academic focus, not about your personality and what you bring to their so-called "community".[/quote]

So if you do not like the US system, you obviously are free to attend/send your kids elsewhere.  
While our system is not perfect, I consider it to be 1000x better than ones that start tracking 10-12 yo.  If your "top stat kid" does not get into an elite/T25 school, they have over 2000 other choices in the US, and will get into many in the 25-60 range (unless their application and visits demonstrate an elite attitude of "I'm too good for your school" which is quite possible from the parental attitude.)  There are so many excellent choices.  You need to recognized that it's not where you go but what you do while there.  [/quote]

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