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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And there goes the low income students![/quote]

My guess is they will also be giving poor students a preference in admissions.
That is what MIT did and their pell grant students went from 20% to 24% of the entering class.[/quote]
I don't really see why this is any more a fair system. I get that poor people aren't a protected class, but it is ridiculous that we attempt to correct education at the finish line.[/quote]

You cannot equalize opportunity through a lifetime of affluence.

Affluence doesn't just help grades and test scores

Poor kids have to work, they can't develop their pole vaulting and oboe skills like affluent kids can.  It also impinges on time that they might be using to work through AoPS questions.

Poor kids don't have exciting summer experiences they can write about.

If it was just test score based, I would say, fine, the poor kid has to focus on ONE thing they have a fighting chance but they have to present these holistic works of art to admissions committees.[/quote]

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