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[quote=Anonymous]The fallacy of these concerns is that admission to Ivy League schools and the like should be based on nothing but scores and GPA. What is wrong with the schools considering other factors, even if it means the absolute highest scoring kids are not always admitted. There are plenty of good schools in this country, and it seems a real first world gripe to complain that one or -- one's kid -- is "stuck" going to, say BU or Case Western, nothwithstanding very high grades and scores. I sometimes wonder if part of the issue is that some of the super-competitive Asians do not have are very status conscious and lack the perspective to appreciate the plethora of other alternatives that are as, or almost, as good, as the 
Ivies.  This country has much bigger problems than whether certain Asian groups might "deserve" -- based on pure metrics -- to constitute a slightly higher percentage of the most elite schools than they already do. These complaints seem to come from a pretty warped set of entitlement. [/quote]

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