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Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent

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The Economic Advantage of College Admissions for the Rich

The SAT and the ACT might be, in a sense, the least gameable test of someone's qualification. David Frum: Colleges should explicitly seek to take more applicants from public schools than from private schools. He says affluent kids tend to pay full tuition; much less affluent kids do not. Frum: There are ways for colleges to find savings if they decide it is really a priority for them to admit and enroll more low income kids.

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