Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritism' information

Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by rayiner on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:56PM (#34758235)

Standardized tests are the least game-able metric. In NYC poor Chinese immigrants manage to scrounge together $900 for an SAT prep class. It is much harder for them to figure out what some white college administrator wants to hear in a diversity essay. Or to get a job at some non-profit in China working on some social justice effort appealing to white college administrators.

Standardized testing isn’t perfectly meritocratic, but everything else is worse.

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Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis... by janalsncm on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:17AM (#34760073)

Absolutely. The cost of SAT prep courses are very small in comparison to the immeasurable cost of a lifetime of culture and experience that are necessary to impress an admissions board during an essay or interview. This is why it’s so absolutely disgusting to me to find that schools tended to rate Asian students so low on “personality scores”.

As a side note, I haven’t found any more detailed breakdown of the personality scoring results. Asia is a very diverse place and Asian ethnic groups in the US range from the very richest to some of the poorest.

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