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You just made my point better than I ever could with your anecdote when you said “All were athletic and kept their noses clean, did all the “right” things to get the jobs, but didn’t get them because of their fathers’ positions.”
That is exactly how the system operates. They got their jobs because they know exactly what all the “right” things to get the job are.
Is it a level playing field when one candidate knows the questions and more likely the answers to the test beforehand? Do we really get the best and brightest that way?