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Anonymous wrote:Test optional has made a surprising number of my students skip taking the test (or not worry about it and take it "just to see"). 10 years ago kids would prep intensely, but i rarely see that now.
I realize that's not unique to FCPS, but it's an interesting variable.
I've wondered if that would happen. TBH, that sounds great. Prepping for the SAT shouldn't even be a thing.
+100
It's a GOOD outcome if kids are less focused on the SAT/ACT.
I disagree.
As a former very poor yet very smart kkd, SATs and ACTs are a fantastic way to lift kids up above their circumstances, and to open doors and opportunities to poor, disadvantaged, rural and urban working class kids that they never would have dreamed possible.
It does a tremendous disservice to poor, minority, and working class kids to move away from the use of SATs and ACTs in college admissions.
These days, being poor and minority is valued much higher than an SAT score of 1600. If they are already poor and minority, they don’t need to bother. They’ll be accepted with a score of 1200 over an Asian boy scoring 1600.
DD is a senior, applying to colleges this fall. My mother passed away last month. After the funeral DD was so sad and told me what if we also pass away now, what is she going to do. Then she thought for a second and said: “Oh then I’ll write in my college essay that my parents passed away” - meaning that it would increase her admission chances. That’s what the US college admission system rewards, not the high test scores.
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