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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is pretty odd compared to other countries. Shouldn’t some universities still keep academics at the fore?[/quote]

Merit is the opposite of quotas. American colleges are increasingly about quotas.[/quote]

It is impossible for the US to have every college be based purely on some random set of "merit" numbers. It is a giant capitalist market with no real way to compare apples to apples. There is no single high school curriculum across the country. There is no single set of skills colleges are looking for from every student for every major they offer. Most students do not apply to college with a major in mind at all. There is no single way of grading students in high school. The standardized tests are validly criticized for numbers of reasons, though presently it's the best we have since every high school is different.

You cannot compare US admissions as a whole to other countries; maybe to one state system, minus the private universities, but not as a whole. In the UK in 2020, 728,780 people applied through UCAS to an undergraduate course. In the US according to Pew, there were 10.2 million college applications submitted. It is a completely different universe. The closest you will get to the merit system most other countries have is the state college system, but that is warped by the existence of out of state applications and competition from private colleges in and out of the state. And, of course, so much of our system is based on private money, obviously more so at private schools, but also given the amount parents must pitch in for even public schools, and that changes the business model drastically.

If you want something close to a merit based system, stick with your state's public university system. The rest is free market.[/quote]

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