Re:Why did the A-level algorithm say no?
by oh_sigh on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:21PM
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My high school had one person 3 years prior to my senior year get into an Ivy, and then before that it was no one in recent memory. In my senior class, 6 of us got into Ivies. I can only imagine what my life would be like if we only got the "fair" allotment of zero Ivy spots in a system like this.
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Similar happened to me (UK) - my school went from performing under the national average for the preceding three years to being notably above for my year group, and no one could remember anyone going to Oxbridge, but there were two of us in that year (the school barely even knew about the extra exams we had to take - required for one, optional for the other - so the prep. was more or less entirely self-taught).