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The page states pretty much the opposite. If you read the link, they state how, amongst other things:

Good SAT scores can help find students from poorer high schools who didn't have the opportunity to take as many advanced classes in high school.

Also, to quote the paper "College admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non-numerical components of applications"

Like admissions essays touched up by educational counsellors, who can also get children of rich parents into "volunteering programs" that touch up experience, while poorer kids have to work after school.



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