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Comment Admissions and bias (Score 0) 93

This comment section is abhorrent.

Your environment is a huge part of your development and cumulative education.

You might be very smart but if you are in a poorly funded, "bad" school district, then you won't flourish. You're not being challenged or used well - academic underachievement. This is very well accepted and long documented.

As kids get older, they have the ability to "leap ahead". Remember, they're intelligent. Colleges found this out. Thus the prep courses in your first year or in the summer leap these kids into where they should be to do good in school. No one cares if you started in Math 55 or started in Algebra 1 come graduate school admissions. You all end up at the same spot.

Standardized tests are a very predictable format. The more wealthy school districts know this and thus have pivoted from knowledge to taking tests. If 50% of your class gets into an Ivy, then you're a good district, right?

If you are in an environment that you learn how to take tests and think like a test writer for 12 years then you're good to take tests.
If you are in an environment that you have to focus on staying alive and not getting killed but could be brilliant, then you're not going to excel at this certain metric.

We will find the student who will make the best of the education and offer them a chance to make something of themselves. ... or you can all go back to talking about "the blacks"

Not like I do admissions at a college or anything.

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