#hateread candidate because of the terrible tablecloth picture and the inaccuracies in the article | The Hill: Bring back standardized tests — for fairness
i aint doing much right now..
Let's start, as you always should in the opinion pieces, with investigating the author.

looks like a serial entrepreneur and journalist/author with no particular experience in college admissions/counseling or testing expertise who is now a lawyer . . . hmmm
also the first couple of grafs tell us this article is going to be a lot of hand-wringing hyperbole
His snarling elitism is evident in the schools he mentions and the dismissive way he mentions NYU. . .

He might as well have just summed it up by saying "How dare Stanvard allow the unwashed masses to apply to the pure ivory halls. They'll turn it into educational hobo jungles"
Here we go ... here is where the true colors really start to show and the inaccuracies appear. His characterization of cutoffs is demonstrably wrong.

He's seemingly a founding member of #QAdmit assuming all Black/brown students admitted are unqualified.
aside: If you want some perspective on the Harvard case read this thread.
This is seriously telling, and you'll see it coded lots of places that argue for tests,

"Its not that tests are accurate, its that they are easy"

(and not said but probably consider: his students are winning so why disrupt the system)
also I'm not going to bother debunking his test tropes but here is a nice summary, i highlight a few as i talked about other things above

the full blog post by @JonBoeckenstedt is here jonboeckenstedt.net/2020/06/11/boe…
And here it is.. the pretend nod to the value of letting in anyone not rich and white but not at the expense of the system that excludes them because its ... merit.

I'd love to see this guys article decrying legacy and donors..

meh I'm done
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Also that grade inflation trope showed so here is a thread to consider

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