While I personally think that only academic merit is the fairest system I can see how this may make admissions fairer.
It will not allow kids in preferred demographic groups with executive parents who are currently enjoying all the advantages of an upper-middle/upper class upbringing from claiming ‘hardship’ due to their demographics.
It may also allow rust belt/rural poor white kids a better chance than they currently have. Or kids of uneducated immigrant parents both working multiple minimum wage jobs to try to get better lives for their offspring (especially if East Asian) to have better chances of admission.
In short it might allow kids whose circumstances have genuinely held them back to have a better chance.
Of course - it probably will not.
Last edited by madeinuk; 05/17/19 03:06 PM.
