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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, asians are the best students, but do not know how to write essays[/quote]

This seems like an oxymoron: how can you be the "best" student if you have no writing ability? It's an important skill and colleges rightly look for it.[/quote]

Since it's all rigged to keep the ruling class in their positions, meritocracy requires random IQ tests when they are very young, before they can be test prepped. You either are truly gifted or not.

The Cult of Smartness: How Meritocracy Is Failing America

Institutions designed to reward merit are being gamed by the privileged, who create a self-perpetuating elite. The most familiar example concerns admission to prestigious schools. Admissions tests like the SAT began as a high-minded reform. Applicants would be chosen for intellectual prowess and compete for their spot on a level playing field. Thanks to test prep, the rich get lots of time to practice on it, while even smart poor kids don't.

More broadly, inequality begets more inequality. "Those who climb up the ladder will always find a way to pull it up after them, or to selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies and kin to scramble up." Thus the astonishingly outsized gains seen at the very top of American society.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/why-our-elites-are-failing-us-and-how-to-fix-it/258492/[/quote]

For once I actually agree with you. What the article emphasizes, and where I agree, is that rich kids can prep for the SATs. However, if you're the Asian conspiracy theorist, I have to point out that most Asians are wealthy enough to participate in all the SAT prepping. And they do participate, in droves, in SAT prepping, starting before 9th grade (!!!) in my kids' public school. My kids each know several Asian kids who started with the SAT prep courses before high school even started.[/quote]

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