Genuine question: everyone cheering on the end of the SAT is fine with giving even more discretion to the same college admissions staffs that bend over backwards to let in legacies and also grade minority essays on a de facto ‘oppresssion’ curve? What’s the thinking here?

Wouldn’t it be better to just have everyone go to an open admissions community college for the first two years and then if they feel the desire to continue their education, they can go a graduate program at a state institution? Seems so obvious to me.

The problem with exclusion in education is the idea that education should be exclusive at all. Half measures like eliminating the SAT while keeping the entire system in place will just make this shit even more arbitrary while also legitimizing it more via ‘diversity improvement’

A reminder: this is how harvard reads essays. They aren’t the only school in America but they’ve traditionally been the model upon which all college admissions are built. You can decide if it’s better to empower these people even more.