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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the TO talk makes me wonder - what's the point of creating a specific class to your standards, whatever those standards are? Just a prestige thing? [/quote]

Originally it was created to reduce the influx of too many Jews into the Ivy League.  
It continued to be useful by providing the children of affluent families a way to bypass academic competition against poorer applicants.

These schools are not selling education, they are selling exclusivity.  
The whole diversity rationale is pretty stupid considering almost noone else in the world uses holistic admissions.
Most of Europe uses a single test.  A lot of asia uses a single test.  Some places use a series of tests.

People here will try to convince you that there is a negative correlation between test scores and things like "passion,"
The liberal elite in america will constantly harp on about how america is doing everything wrong and the rest of the world is doing everything right, but will always make an exception for the one thing that allows privilege to be reinforced through higher education using a holistic admissions process.

As we see in other countries, using a single test results in far more economic diversity at the country's top schools than we have at ours.[/quote]

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