And for others, paid school consultants, tutors and prep courses, some starting as early as kindergarten, give students with means, or those with parents in the know, a leg up. That includes poor Asian families who spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars prepping for the exam.
The same can be said for gifted and talented admissions, where disparities are equally abysmal. Or SAT and ACT results. There is an entire economy set up around test prep for a reason.
We have a system that is profoundly unfair — against the poor, against immigrants, against black and brown students, and against Asian Americans — and we call it a meritocracy.
Demolish the meritocracy myth: No, the specialized high school exam is not a fair admissions screen; it’s discriminatory
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