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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It’s not about correcting education. It’s about giving bright but disadvantaged kids a shot at a first class education that will offer them social mobility.

The kids cannot help what families they are born into, and a bright poor kid who gets 1450 on the SAT with minimal prep deserves a space at a Stanford as much as the privileged, tutored, and enriched kid who gets a 1600.

Universities want bright minds above all, and they know that kids who come from underprivileged backgrounds are a source of untapped human capital. [/quote]

A tutored rich kid with a 1600 is way more impressive than a poor kid with a 1450.

Stuyvesant high school is filled with poor kids getting 1550 or higher on the SAT.  But they're mostly poor asian kids.  Test scores isn't what is keeping smart poor kids out, it's all the other parts of the holistic application where they look boring because they had to work at the pizza hut every summer.  This isn't about poor kids, it's about the black and hispanic kids that can't seem to do well on these tests.[/quote]

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