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Comment by rueynshard

While I agree that Ivy League admissions could be more transparent, I certainly hope they don't move to the Oxbridge style of purely focusing on academics.

University admissions are not just a means of selecting people - they are also important behavioral incentives for teenagers. I'd much rather encourage high schoolers to focus on a wide variety of interests (for some that might be academics, for others, the arts) rather than coerce everyone into caring about grades at the expense of everything else.

parent rueynshard 8 years ago

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