…. You think SAT scores should be the basis of merit in the US? A test we take as teenagers defines our value?

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Merit is not and never has been king. If you believe that you are lying to yourself

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I’m talking about what value they assign to human life not what college you get into. Also like if the SAT was actually a fair test for all takers I could see your point. But SAT scores are more correlated with family wealth (access to prep resources) than they are with intelligence or anything

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The more money your parents spend to help you study the better you score.

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There is a well documented and clear correlation and causation between wealth and test scores. You can act like that’s not true but you’d be wrong

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And it’s not merit based

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Doesn’t need to be. But people like you will fight to defend that inequity, and for what reason? You were born into it and don’t want others less fortunate to be able to achieve the same? Or are you delusional enough to think you’ll be in the .001% of high test scorers that actually make it big?

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You are simple minded. Merit comes from a lot more than a score. Obviously you’ve never been interviewed for a job

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What’s the point of great test scores if you ignore scientific evidence just because you don’t like what it’s saying?

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Nobody will give a flying fuck about your test scores in the real world buddy

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I’m sure you did phenomenally on your exams. Still means you have an incredibly small chance of making it big. The people above you are just as upset over you climbing the ladder as you are towards those below you. Only difference is they have the power and resources to keep you down

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No honey I just hate that people assign value to others based solely on arbitrary metrics with no regard for their common humanity

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You are, you just don’t realize it or refuse to accept it. But don’t worry, ppl like us here are fighting to help you too. Regardless of your intellectual or social merit. Because you’re American you. You’re human too.

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36 ACT here, your take is utter dogshit.

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I also got a 1580 on my SAT. You’re a fucking clown

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I’m a fisheries biologist, I didn’t go to medical school.

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Like bro I got a good score because I had a stable home with good internet that enabled me to practice a lot. I didn’t have to work to help my family.

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Sure…

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Are you even IN medical school???

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I get it’s a bit difficult to understand a difference in perspectives like this. But I was once where you were. I grew up with privilege, I had the ability to have my parents pay for sat prep courses, pay for $10,000 instruments just to give me a slight edge in regional/state tryouts, I lived in an area that forced my childhood education to offer whatever courses I wanted because I did well on a gifted test my teacher recommended me for in first grade. If I was poor, I wouldn’t have any of it.

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Dude is deepthroating the boot.

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Are you already AT MBB or do you have a return offer there? Also if you had half a brain you’d know that not every USMLE or MCAT or even SAT is the same, and there’s no true way of saying that the person who got a 520 on form A would still get a 520 on form B

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TLDR

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Yeah we know you don’t read

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I believed (delusionally) that all people could achieve what I did if the had the “merit”. But what few struggles I did have (physical/mental health) limited my possibilities far more than my merit raised my potential. Bone deformities killed my dream of serving in the navy (or any branch as a dressed serviceman) and my ability to play sports. I used to be a consistent youth tournament winner prior to my surgeries, not anymore.

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It wasn’t until I got to a school that saw me for who I was, my successes and my struggles, and decided to value me for who I am that I realized there’s so much more to what makes a successful person than what the conservative zeitgeist would lead you to believe.

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So you’re a consultant? Explains a lot about your mindset

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Anonymous #6 14h

I suspect there’s a limit to the amount #4 can read. 1 sentence and you’re golden, 2 sentences and you’re pushing it… 3? forget about it.

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Oh yeah, PE poster, I remember you. The same guy who thought that if everyone just got a job in IB, consulting, or CS, that there’d be no cost of living crisis. The narrowness of your worldview more than explains your choice of career.

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lmfao sunset why do you keep embarrassing yourself. do you actually have a humiliation kink? dude might be jerking off right now or some shit

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