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A comment on Lost in the Meritocracy (2005). Parent comment

Re:Lost in the Meritocracy (2005) by reader5000 on Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:16PM (#5549546)
Actually "holistic" admissions means "we're not going to be irrationally obsessed with SAT scores".

Basically if SAT is your sole criterion then you become Caltech. Caltech is a great school but there are other human phenotypes that would like to go to college and other universities to accommodate them.

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Re:Lost in the Meritocracy (2005) by yummyfajitas on Monday April 15, 2013 @08:54AM (#5551175)
Actually "holistic" admissions means "we're not going to be irrationally obsessed with SAT scores".

What a coincidence - when the supreme court said point-based race discrimination was illegal but discrimination in holistic systems was legal, colleges immediately switched to holistic admissions.

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Re:Lost in the Meritocracy (2005) by reader5000 on Monday April 15, 2013 @10:04AM (#5551508)
Yeah dude all schools across the board immediately switched to continue to keep down the asian man. The court decision you are alluding to simply outlawed giving points to applicants for being of a certain race. The FEW schools using these systems did so as a way of countering latent effects of slavery. After the ruling they stopped doing so. What's your point?
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