The premium on prestigious colleges is wildly overrated. I should know.
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The College Board Capitulates to Trump
The organization, which administers the SAT, scrapped a race-neutral tool for identifying high-achieving low-income students following pressure from the Trump administration.
Posted inMagazine
The SAT Meritocracy
Several years ago in these pages, I reviewed a book by E. Digby Bakzell, the sociologist of the American elite (he invented the term WASP), and heartily endorsed Baltzell’s observation that the old American “Protestant Establishment” (another term Baltzell invented) had been replaced by a new “SAT meritocracy.” I suggested that the rise of the latter […]
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The Merit Racket: How SATs are running the GNP
“Henry Adams could see easy ways of making a hundred blunders,” wrote Henry Adams in The Education of Henry Adams. “He could see no likely way of making a legitimate success.” Poor Adams. It was his curse to be the first truly modern man of the American East Coast, in that he spent his entire life worrying […]
