Here’s the deal: just about everyone who goes to Harvard deserves to be there. If Harvard wanted to accept only people with 1600s on the SAT, they could fill up their class with ease. Instead, they choose a class that reflects a larger set of backgrounds. I massively benefited from the diversity of my class, and I’m glad that Harvard didn’t just pick a bunch of rich kids who had access to the best SAT prep.
The SAT shows where a person ended up in their junior year of high school—it doesn’t show where they started out, nor where they’re going to end up. And it certainly doesn’t show what kind of a contribution they’ll make to the academic community.
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Here’s the deal: just about everyone who goes to Harvard deserves to be there. If Harvard wanted to accept only people with 1600s on the SAT, they could fill up their class with ease. Instead, they choose a class that reflects a larger set of backgrounds. I massively benefited from the diversity of my class, and I’m glad that Harvard didn’t just pick a bunch of rich kids who had access to the best SAT prep.
The SAT shows where a person ended up in their junior year of high school—it doesn’t show where they started out, nor where they’re going to end up. And it certainly doesn’t show what kind of a contribution they’ll make to the academic community.