Interesting opinion article on admissions policy

patuxent
Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:03:17 +0000

Hmm I wonder how intellectual diversity equates with a “pro-active admissions philosophy”. These liberal arts colleges have all the intellectual diversity of a Stalinist Poliburo meeting. Fighting the revolution in an LL Bean Vermont barn coat.

Interestingly the assumption appears to be that the SAT score are high because the family is wealthy but it doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to pose an alternate hypothesis that the family is wealthy because they are smart and that the child being the product of both good genes and enriched upbringing is also smart.

Why in a meritocracy should anyone object to merit being rewarded? And why would you want to reward mediocrity?