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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US is designed around the idea of competition and freedom to compete. Everyone gets a chance to wrestle to the top of the heap, instead of being forced to stay lower class or upper class. [/quote]

That’s not true. Most Ivy League schools and other top colleges are disproportionately filled with wealthy students, which shows how wealth and power tend to remain concentrated among those who already have them. Many high-achieving students are denied admission not because of a lack of merit, but because they lack advantages such as influence, legacy status, or institutional “hooks.” The admissions system is not fair, nor is it a level playing field.[/quote]

It is true that many high-achieving kids are denied admission. But, they are denied admission because of a lack of space, not a lack of fairness. Your implication that those with hooks don’t merit admission is incorrect. The playing field isn’t always level but those who do are not qualified for admission rarely get in.

There are far more high-achieving applicants than spaces which is why you cannot really stack rank top schools. The student body and resources are more similar than different. This vexes those who gain admission because they need to crow about their “win”.[/quote]

Nope. Not everyone gets in based on merit. You get in based on a whole bunch of things. Between 3 kids we have seen mediocre students who lied about a bunch of things on their college apps get in. Others got in because of legacy or race. None of them were admitted on merit. [/quote]

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