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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by criddell on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:23PM (#33836366)
A lot of your criticisms of the essay apply to standardized tests as well.
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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by chinchilla2020 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:59PM (#33900153)
Sure, they do.

But a math test is a pretty accurate test of someone's mathematical skill.

An essay about life is a much more dubious and lacks a quantitative rubric for comparing candidates.

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