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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line:  The system is fine tuned for the colleges to build exactly the class they want.  If you want to change the system you'll have to start by convincing them to not do that.  Unlikely to ever happen, and with good reason.

The mistaken assumption is that elite colleges simply take the X best candidates and offer admission to them.  Completely untrue and it has never been that way.  They build a class to accommodate a long list which makes up their institutional mission.  And in the current system they do it extremely well, test scores or no test scores.[/quote]

And remembering that most elite universities could build 5+ equally qualified freshman classes from their applications, so yes, many qualified candidates will get turned away.  Don't set your snowflakes up to expect they will get in just because they have high scores, because there are way too many qualified candidates for spots, and that is only worse with TO.   It was a lottery system 10 years ago and isn't going to get better as people continue applying to 10+ colleges each year
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