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St. Louis Fed
Meritocracy in College Admissions
20 minutes Posted Jun 30, 2021 at 1:39 pm.
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“Access to college types can be used as an effective tool for the purpose of fighting inequality,” says Oksana Leukhina, economist and research officer at the St. Louis Fed. She talks about how changes to the current meritocratic college admissions system in the U.S. could combat inequality.