Performances of three groups at HS and Colleges

[ucbalumnus]

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@PolarBearVsShark

I think, just to be contentious, on the day after Xmas, that lumping American kids together can work because the curricular system and the cultural system is relatively standardized, even though the socioeconomic brackets are not.

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<p>The fact that US universities feel that they need to use external standardized tests to supplement applicants’ high school academic credentials indicates that they believe that the K-12 school curricula in the US are not very standardized as far as quality and grading goes, even though the course names and subject delineations may be superficially similar.</p>

<p>Of course, one can argue that this problem is even more extreme in countries where the universities’ sole criteria for admission is a standardized test, indicating that they do not trust high school records at all.</p>