Is it not fair to say college rankings are basically just test score rankings?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's the way it should be.

Agree, but if you believe the Dartmouth press release explaining how they will be viewing test scores going forward, it won’t be that way at all.
They are no longer comparing/ranking just the test result/score. Instead it’s how did the applicant score within their high school environment. In other words, a kid who is top of their class and scored better than 98% of their classmates at their high school with a score of 1320 may be admitted over an applicant who scored a 1510 from a high school where they were in lower top quarter of students and whose score was surpassed by 15% of their classmates from that high school.
Equity admissions.

It's ok to make some adjustments for kids who grew up in poor areas with poor schools. Some of those kids have not had much support.