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or instead of this parade of bullshit, they could decide admission on a truly meritocratic basis as is still done in the UK, EU and most countries around the world. you score high enough in the relevant exam and you gain entry.

anyway, the real scandal of ivy league admissions is the insane discrimination against asian americans. if you're from the preferred ethnic groups, you already get an enormous effective boost to your test scores.

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You can't really base admissions on merits when all the applicants have essentially maxed out those merits. They're all valedictorians with SAT scores that are nearly perfect.

I agree affirmative action is not ideal. Priority acceptance should be based on family income, not race. But the end result would be nearly the same as it is now.

I grew up in an upper class suburb (though not an upper class family myself) and saw tons of wealthy minority students that performed worse in school but got accepted at places their white friends weren't. They also got to do stuff like apply to scholarships for hispanic Americans when their families were of middle-eastern region ethnicity. No one was going to risk calling them out and being labeled a racist.

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All this assumes a rationing of college admissions. Whereas in America there are more than enough college positions to go around.

There are limited Ivy League seats, but that's all marketing. They use the same textbooks as your state U; you sit in similar 300-person halls to hear Intro-To-Whatever lectures.

I'm not so sure we need to shake up admissions processes to suit these self-appointed 'best schools'.