An exam that is taken as part of a college application and is typically unaligned to
anything other than itself thus requiring
one to take an extensive costly
prep course in order to learn its disparate content and style. Heavily used to convey birthright in the United States since the early 1940s.
Ah yes, we'll devise an entrance exam to measure whether someone can afford a test
prep course, and thereby measure whether they can afford our tuition. This
will enable us to screen out applicants that we would have to give a need-
based scholarship to while pretending we're being meritocratic.