When I grew up in South Africa admission to college depended on, and only on, the grades you got in high school (assuming of course that you were white). No essays, no sports, no nothing
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Perhaps the first step should be, here, not for universities to change their sdmission standards but to be totally honest and open about what their admission standards are
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As always, the nub of the whole matter is money. If the survival of universities depends upon their income, and their income depends upon the donations of wealthy alumni, then universities will tend to admit those students they judge most likely to become wealthy alumni donors.
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This economically rational behavior is hard to acknowledge openly, however, without imperiling the (enormous) tax advantages universities enjoy as non-profit corporations (as well as the status they enjoy as disinterested sponsors of scholarship and learning.)
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After all, non-profit corporations get tax breaks because they plausibly claim to serve a public good. But the more universities come to resemble other less noble, straightforwardly profit-maximizing economic actors, the less viable appears their claim to special dispensations.
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