Harvard Rated Asian-American Applicants Lower on Personality Traits: Lawsuit
I can&#x27;t help but think that college admissions based solely on test scores (as done in India, Russia, maybe China?), and nothing else, might be the least unfair way to judge applicants.<p>Every admission system is unfair in some way but tests are a yardstick everyone understands and can optimize for. In India they publicly post the list of admitted students and their marks. Richer students may benefit from higher-quality test coaching but a) that happens today anyway and b) the Internet will ensure rapid dissemination of test-prep strategies for cheap or free<p>The other downside is it might give you a more, for lack of a better word, boring student body at the higher levels. Fewer non-academic interests and achievements because every bit of spare time in high school was spent on studying.<p>I thought the American system sounded better when I was a high-schooler in India with not good but not great marks (&quot;surely <i>they&#x27;d</i> recognize my specialness despite my lower scores, even if these hidebound colleges in India won&#x27;t!&quot;) but it does leave more room for implicit bias.