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gchallen | 3 years ago

Related reading which I didn't see posted yet: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/mit-admiss...

Lot of great stuff in there, but here's one quote:

> Richer students don’t just get better SAT scores. They also tend to outperform on everything else that an admissions committee would use to select students. Personal essays? Their style and content are more strongly correlated with family income than SAT scores are. Recommendation letters? They are subject to teachers’ classist and racist biases, and even knowing how to request the letters requires significant social capital.

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