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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by cambalache on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:31PM (#23541070)
You can say exactly the same to the candidates who jumped above her not by academic merit but by other nebulous criteria.
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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by grumple on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:30PM (#23544449)
When have these schools ever said they care only about academic merit? They explicitly don’t and never have; every high school has a counselor that will tell you that you need to have more on your application than grades and a test score.
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