By cashing in on the anxieties — and disposable income — of an elite clientele, Green is capitalizing on a system that is clearly skewed in favor of those students who already have a tremendous advantage. Far from helping to foster a meritocracy, as many of us would like to believe, colleges that base their admissions on standardized testing just as easily reinforce the inequality of American society. Not that theres much Green can do about the system as a whole, something he readily acknowledges. The SAT is a blatant class indicator, Green tells me. The entire system of standardized tests and higher education is completely ridiculous and ludicrous. But colleges havent found any other way to objectively evaluate the merits of a student. You have thousands of students applying to your school — there has to be a way to compare them to one another in terms of math and language and writing skill. Any objective system like this can and will be gamed, he says, and yes, doing so can be expensive. Its a free market economy, he says. These people find me on their own and they want to work with me, and I am happy to work with them. But the system itself is completely broken.
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 15:57:03 +0000
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