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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]college teacher here.  System has created kids who don't care about learning but do care about grades and prizes.  These aren't the kids elite colleges want, so they are looking for ways to find kids who care about learning (and they are looking to find smart kids of all ses brackets).  But they have yet any way to measure caring about learning and their measure for smarts skews for kids from a certain high ses.   
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I know two really unpleasant, hugely competitive kids of enormously competitive parents who attend Harvard and Yale. These kids excelled at sports and did well academically at so-so private schools. The parents wanted the prestige of having their kids at "top" Ivies, and they succeeded. I'm hoping the kids have trust funds for therapy, because they are going to need it. I've talked with these kids (and their parents) and they are really disgusting people. But the kids had the creds, and they got in.

I can't understand why Harvard and Yale accept kids like this. They are going to become horrible adults, interested only in advancing themselves and not in improving the world for the rest of the human race.

Getting rid of test scores and GPA and all that crap would require the elite schools to work harder to figure out who the real leaders are, who the deepest thinkers are, who the most compassionate and dedicated people are and offer them the very great privilege of attending their universities. The world does not need another corporate lawyer or investment banker, and elite institutions should recognize this and let those people attend other schools. None of those lawyers or bankers makes the world a better place, and the elite institutions should not be educating them.

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Because a huge number of bankers and lawyers put in their time, build up their savings, then quit to put their talents to use in better places. If you aren't aware of this trend, then you're not running in the right circles.[/quote]

Oh please. Show me one. Please. [/quote]

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