Professionaldad - I agree with you to a point. However, now you have all of these kids who were schooled to take a test and your take is that the AO’s are on to this widespread nonsense. This may be true, but I believe they are then taking all of the kids in this great stat pool and looking at these kids more “holistically “. The students who don’t have these advantages (and that is what they are) are really not in the game.
I know folks will claim any kid can self study etc etc, but it is in no way the same thing.