> Taking Calculus at not-Stanford may have led to a very different result.
Thomas Sowell, in Inside American Education, argues that promoting students to more difficult colleges while ignoring SATs is not doing those students any favor. A firehose-pedagogy accepted by those with SAT scores 200-300 points higher can completely demoralize someone who could have done perfectly well at a moderately-paced school. However, the competition to practice AA leads, he argues, those more advanced schools to ignore SAT scores in admission for the schools' benefits, but not the benefit of the students so admitted.
Thomas Sowell, in Inside American Education, argues that promoting students to more difficult colleges while ignoring SATs is not doing those students any favor. A firehose-pedagogy accepted by those with SAT scores 200-300 points higher can completely demoralize someone who could have done perfectly well at a moderately-paced school. However, the competition to practice AA leads, he argues, those more advanced schools to ignore SAT scores in admission for the schools' benefits, but not the benefit of the students so admitted.