The huge college admissions scandal involving several highly selective admissions universities reveals serious deficiencies in how we select kids to go to top schools.
Whenever something is sold at prices below the market-clearing level, so-called"black" markets develop. Thus people paid a small fortune to scalpers to seewhen it first opened on Broadway. Similarly, at elite private colleges and universities, the number requesting admission exceeds the openings available, so many are turned away. This leads to great angst, and has led to a major racial discrimination lawsuit ongoing at Harvard.
I think that there is a lot of highly questionable policies, arguably even sleaziness, in college admissions today at the elite colleges and universities. First of all, in most other countries one's ability to row a boat or hit a tennis ball would have absolutely no bearing on college admissions --why in the U.S.
The use of so-called"holistic" admissions criteria by the top schools--a key issue in the Harvard legal contretemps--aids and abets admissions mischief. If admission counselors and committees can use their discretion in making decisions. they can become susceptible to bribes. Decades ago I heard rumors at my school of one such counselor admitting a student in return for sexual favors, and another of a dean taking a bribe to let a student into medical school.
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