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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see accidents of birth removed from admissions consideration. [/quote]

Like natural intelligence? [/quote]

Or being born to parents who value education and know how to provide reading and math experiences from an early age? 
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But these things build skills that are directly relevant to the actual business of elite undergraduate education. We send students to immerse themselves in a scholarly life.[/quote]

But it is complete luck of the draw what parents a child is born to. A child has no say in the amount of interest a family shows in education. A child can't help it if he is born to parents who don't understand the value of education.

Why shouldn't schools give a hand up to bright kids whose families didn't send them to extra classes, seminars, tutoring sessions? When two kids are equally bright, but one had to work twice as hard to get half as far as the kid born to an academically inclined family, maybe it's a good thing for a college to take their circumstances into account. 
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