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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats, you’ve discovered something we all realized years and years ago.

If you want a meritocratic admissions system, move to China or the UK.[/quote]

You want the sorting hat to be put on even younger than it is now? No thanks.[/quote]

American kids all choose their area of study at 17/18. Many just fabricate it for easier admission since major can be changed.[/quote]

Well in UK/India, kids take a test around age 11/12, and how you do that one day determines your future track thru HS (and thus college).  If you don't do well, you are not focusing on STEM classes at all, so you simply won't get into a college as a STEM major or anything to do with premed.  
It's easier to "get into college" based on just academics because those systems removed 75% of the students back at age 11 from the competition.

I prefer the USA way.  However, you are entitled to move anywhere else to get your kid educated if you feel it is truly better
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