I'm gonna contest your cheating culture. Look I went to high school with some kids who got into THE top tier schools. Cornell, Harvard, Columbia. None of those kids were cutting corners and they werent just white kids. Everyone in the school knew they worked hard, and that they deserved it. In my school, you could cheat on homework, the tests it was impossible outside of one really lazy chemistry teacher. Several people were busted for trying. I'm sure in other schools cheating is widespread but if your teachers give a shit they can squash it easily. The failsons who cheated whenever possible all went to low level state schools because, lo and behold, they sucked at SAT/ACTs. If you were a kid who didn't cheat and got good test scores you could get accepted into a decent school. Its not hard to do well in high school, the only kids who didn't do well were the ones who clearly didn't give a crap about school. Giving a shit and actually spending time on the assignments is all you need do well. Also, I've read about some bad highschools, remember that even the laziest failsons aren't truants. People who don't show up are screwed.
At my college (which wasnt a top tier one), basically the same thing. You could get away with cheating on assignments, and certain electives. But on tests in 2000+ level class? It was impossible. Multiple TAs patrolling the classroom watching students. They timed the tests in a way that you weren't going to get test questions ahead of time from peeps in other sections either. Past tests weren't a help since they were completely redone every semester. In fact teachers would usually give out past tests as practice.
If you really believe that everyone at the top is a fraud that doesn't know anything and that they cheated their way there, I'm here to say that's not true. If you think that, you went to bad schools with teachers who didn't care enough to stop the cheating. The work socialists do would help make it so there fewer bad schools.
I'm gonna contest your cheating culture. Look I went to high school with some kids who got into THE top tier schools. Cornell, Harvard, Columbia. None of those kids were cutting corners and they werent just white kids. Everyone in the school knew they worked hard, and that they deserved it. In my school, you could cheat on homework, the tests it was impossible outside of one really lazy chemistry teacher. Several people were busted for trying. I'm sure in other schools cheating is widespread but if your teachers give a shit they can squash it easily. The failsons who cheated whenever possible all went to low level state schools because, lo and behold, they sucked at SAT/ACTs. If you were a kid who didn't cheat and got good test scores you could get accepted into a decent school. Its not hard to do well in high school, the only kids who didn't do well were the ones who clearly didn't give a crap about school. Giving a shit and actually spending time on the assignments is all you need do well. Also, I've read about some bad highschools, remember that even the laziest failsons aren't truants. People who don't show up are screwed.
At my college (which wasnt a top tier one), basically the same thing. You could get away with cheating on assignments, and certain electives. But on tests in 2000+ level class? It was impossible. Multiple TAs patrolling the classroom watching students. They timed the tests in a way that you weren't going to get test questions ahead of time from peeps in other sections either. Past tests weren't a help since they were completely redone every semester. In fact teachers would usually give out past tests as practice.
If you really believe that everyone at the top is a fraud that doesn't know anything and that they cheated their way there, I'm here to say that's not true. If you think that, you went to bad schools with teachers who didn't care enough to stop the cheating. The work socialists do would help make it so there fewer bad schools.