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[quote=Anonymous]With possible exceptions like the state flagship, which would have a lot of data, most selective colleges do not have sufficient sample sizes from a particular high school. The performance of one or two or five students per year from a high school, in a variety of majors, should in no way reflect what a new high school senior's potential is. There are far too many individual factors that would play a role, college classes/professors, who the student's high school teachers were and what their grading was like and the billion or so external reasons why some very able students might do poorly or somewhat less-able students might have top grades - this all varies widely. I'm not saying colleges don't try to make such comparisons - I wouldn't know. I just think that it would be ridiculous and not a statistically sound approach. To the extent that testing fades away, however, I could see this happening. Thus the attractiveness of a standardized test....[/quote]
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