Do high schools lower standards, as Jackson Toby avers, reasoning that high standards are not needed since almost anyone can go to college, no matter how poor financially or academically they are?

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To be meaningful, such a system would have to be open to all, no matter how unknown, whilst also winnowing out submissions that are riven with typos, poor grammar, crap characters and rubbish plots.

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Medicaid, America's main health-care scheme for the poor, does not cover childless adults in most states, no matter how destitute they are.

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Since every high school, no matter how low its standards, has a top decile, the law gave UT a lot of poor and minority kids who never would have made it on the basis of academic ability.

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