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But for ordinary poor kids, a few hundred dollars is not out of reach. What is beyond their grasp, however, is the cultural and social capital that would be required for upward mobility in the inevitability subjective regime you’d have if you got rid of the SATs.

Seems like a sound point.

Poor asian kids [...] are more than twice as likely to end up in the top 1/5th [...] That’s because the gate keeping metrics in this country are objective, and not based on social connections or cultural knowledge.

Seems like a reach.




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