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You forget that there is a significant and very vocal segment in education and academia opposed to such standardized exams as the exams are perceived to undermine equity and social justice.

Which may very well be a valid point, given the explosion of the SAT prep cottage industry.

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Most people who go to ivy league are already from the top 1%. From statistics i read a while ago, like 30-40% of ivy league students have household income 300,000 +. There will never be a world in which a child of a single mother working a minimum wage job will ever have a fair competition against a double household of both doctors as parents but with exams this unfairness is slightly reduced. At the very least, unqualified people with rich parents won't get a free ride. The whole elite school MO of admitting a couple under-qualified poor kids is just lip service so people don't question the real injustice going on.

> Most people who go to ivy league are already from the top 1%

That's way off. Harvard is 15% from the top 1% [1], and that's typical for Ivy League.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

The top 1% shouldn't be about wealth period. It should be about holistic merit with first come, first serve basis. It should be accessible to anyone. Wealth is what caused celebrities to pay millions of dollars for guaranteed admittance.

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