[rueynshard]

While I agree that Ivy League admissions could be more transparent, I certainly hope they don't move to the Oxbridge style of purely focusing on academics.

University admissions are not just a means of selecting people - they are also important behavioral incentives for teenagers. I'd much rather encourage high schoolers to focus on a wide variety of interests (for some that might be academics, for others, the arts) rather than coerce everyone into caring about grades at the expense of everything else.

[oblio]

The thing is, if I'm poor and you're rich, your papa can take you to posh places in Europe and Asia, can pay for dancing and music lessons and for all sorts of fancy things which make you a lot more well rounded than me, when we're both 18-19.

At least with a test the playing field is way more leveled.

If you want extra info, add another test. You want to major in Math? Cool, you also have to pass a geography/history/biology/whatever test (you choose which one and it only counts 15%).