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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:13PM (#23540868)
Also a PoC non-rich kid. My wife's students in an inner-city school serving a mostly immigrant populace are not going to write fine-sounding essays about their time volunteering in Haiti, because they're working at Starbucks instead of volunteering in Haiti. Hell, their parents came from Haiti.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by skinnymuch on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:17AM (#23547728)
The high school I went to, one of the two towns is regularly in one of those big magazines too 50 most affluent/best zip codes. I don’t know any one off the top of my head bedsides 2 possible people who did any thing like that in HS.

Yes, vast majority did not have to work while going to HS (which is possibly why some angles toward free HS should be focused on. Not free college). But they also weren’t freely going to Haiti.

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