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Elite colleges also don't want the type of people that will spend 4 hours a day cramming for an uninteresting test.

Yes, but elite public high schools do. Which feed the elite colleges.

Also, middle schoolers don’t really have a choice in the matter. If it were up to them, they’d play Roblox and watch TikToks all day.

No they probably don’t. That’s one side of the argument.