NY Times: The New College Try (Karabel)

[weenie]

<p>Nice succinct article, but not too much new there.</p>

<p>I liked his last paragraph though:</p>

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Last, and not least, by undermining the dubious assumption that the applicants admitted are those with the most merit, a lottery* might promote a certain measure of humility — a quality in short supply in the upper rungs of the “meritocracy” — among admission officers and students alike.

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<p>(Previosly in the article he suggests a lottery system for a small percentage of academically qualified students.)</p>