Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions...
by pbhjpbhj on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:53PM
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>coming from a more advantageous social-economic background grants you so many benefits in many ways //
It's not all benefit: you can be taught to be lazy, not to be self-reliant, you can lack tenacity and resilience, you can have perverse expectations and a sheltered view of the World. Such things can turn out to be a hindrance to self-fulfillment.
Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions...
by hangonhn on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:34PM
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Yeah that's a fair point for sure and I've seen examples of those too. However, even then some well resourced parents will still clear a path for these children to get into selective schools as the recent college admissions scandals revealed.
I was shamed by some older fellow alums when I told people that my parents had hired someone to go over my application and essays. Their stance was that my parents gave me an unfair advantage (note, both of my parents are immigrants who did not even finish high school). My retort to them was point out that most of them didn't exactly grow up in the crime ridden rural parts of the world (quite the opposite in fact). Their parents paid a higher tax rate to support the world class public education they got, which they just assumed is the norm. That shut them up rather quickly.
SAT prep classes or not, coming from a more advantageous social-economic background grants you so many benefits in many ways. My parents wouldn't have to hire someone to review my applications if my school had a good college counselor (50% of my classmates do not go on to college).