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[Bruce William Smith]

The college admissions game, as described in the last two stories (from the Washington Post and the New York Times) above, needs new rules. The student suing the University of Texas has a legitimate grievance if she has been denied an opportunity she has earned, which would more demonstrably be the case if she had earned the kind of baccalaureate certificate common in Europe and other parts of the world, one which the school I have proposed, One World Secondary, is innovating as a qualification for public universities in the United States. As it is, however, our students are devoting themselves to long, expensive hours of study of comparatively useless tests like the SAT. It is hard to legislate family ambitions out of existence -- Korea has tried and failed -- but we would be well advised to channel those energies so as to develop some more socially useful masteries than the superficial, selfish ones currently being so energetically pursued.

[Sarah]

The profoundly depressing thing is that society still hasn’t progressed past conformity being the only realistic acceptable norm.

[Sarah]

On a lighter note, Wall Street’s too busy finding new, exciting ways to bankrupt us all to have 1.5B mean all that much. Did I say “lighter”? Silly me.

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