Private Schools Are the Real College Admissions Scandal
As SCOTUS prepares to hear another case about action, it’s worth considering the factor that really provides applicants an unfair advantage.
Hasnain says:
“Defenders of private high schools’ overrepresentation at many highly ranked universities might claim the students have reaped the benefit of a more rigorous education in order to earn their spot. When you control for wealth, however, private school’s academic and social-emotional benefits are basically wiped out. Historically, students from the nation’s elite boarding schools “perform[ed] worse in the classroom [at Harvard] than other students over the entire 1924-1990 period” but went on to make more money than their peers by taking advantage of the connections they made in groups like final clubs, which largely exclude anyone who is not wealthy or white.”
Posted on 2021-06-17T06:31:11+0000