[mnazim]

That's a completely different thing. Purpose of school education is to nurture a human child into a member of society, who understands her rights and duties; posses the knowledge and tools to exercise her rights, and discharge her duties. University has nothing to do with this.

[brighter2morrow]

You joke but this is actually a growing sentiment. Schools across the USA are eliminating more and more liberal arts requirements as universities become more like glorified "coding bootcamps".

[prepend]

These aren’t exclusive. I agree with the your defined purpose with school. But my question stands about how a university of fellowship should distinguish students who did better than others.

I think there’s usefulness to some sort of statistically standardized test that is a good mix in to the many other factors that should be used- essays, activities, awards, interviews, referrals.

I think it’s bad when a test is given too much weight, but if we don’t have any standards with the goal of being objective then I fear only attractive people will get into the best colleges.