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I know, OP! It's infuriating, because as long as admissions are "holistic", there will be cheating and fraud.

It's much harder to cheat on a standardized test than it is to casually invent a bunch of extra-curriculars.

University admissions need to be entirely academic and standardized.[/quote]

The rich/privileged love 'holistic'. Their messaging is that it helps the poors but in reality it allows them to game it to their benefit. Who do you think the college cartel will listen to?[/quote]

PP you replied. I'm rich! I don't think it has anything to do with gaming the system for the rich... but maybe more to do with Americans' distaste for purely academic competition. It's true that colleges do end up benefiting from a non-transparent form of selection: they have total control over their selections and can "shape their freshman class" however they want, pick the athletes and the musicians that will make their institution well-rounded, get artists to exhibit works in their little campus museum, etc, and all this translates into donations and fundraising. Holistic benefits institutions of higher learning, as business entities, but not individual families. So colleges sell this to families as a low-stress, "whole-child" environment, and Americans have bought this hook, line and sinker. There's out-an-out competition in sports, but woe to the parent who wants to judge kids based on academics alone! They're labeled as Tiger Parents and the anti-asian hate isn't far behind.

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