Word: merited
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Lisa Ngai, a senior at Ferndale High School near Bellingham, Wash., aims to be the first from her immigrant family to go to college. In the past three years she has taken the SAT I three times, the PSAT (which determines National Merit Scholars) twice, SAT II exams in math, writing and U.S. history and, for good measure, the College Board's Advanced Placement calculus exam. This year she is enrolled in three more AP classes. By the time she graduates, she will have paid nearly $500 for tests sponsored by the College Board and designed by the Educational Testing...
What's wrong with grade inflation? Grade inflation makes it hard for professors to discriminate levels of merit. It flatters students and leaves them less capable of handling bad news about themselves. It signifies that professors care less about their teaching, because anyone who cares a lot about something--for example, a baseball fan--is very critical in making judgments about it. In later life, students will forget the professors who gave them easy grades; they will remember the ones who posed a challenge...
...looking for ways to reduce their estates. So righteous are these superrich that, as reported by the New York Times, the only reason Warren Buffet didn't sign was because the petition doesn't go far enough in defending the estate tax, which he insists promotes success based on merit, not bloodline. Buffet likened hand-me-down wealth to "choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the eldest sons of the gold-medal winners in the 2000 Olympics...
...think it's indisputable from the University of California data in general," Thernstrom said. "The merit system favors high GPAs and SATs and Asians tend to do well in those categories...
...This is a relatively new thing American higher education, and about 34 years ago, it didn't exist at all," Thernstrom says. "It's better than a totally subjective questionnaire.[The CUE] has scientific merit...