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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there would actually need to be more tests, to better differentiate students currently getting top scores. There are more students getting u/w 4.0 and 1600/36 than there are spaces for them in the Ivies, for example. Those schools simply can’t admit on stats alone because there are too many students with the same top stats. [/quote] those tests exist. See the first comment.

[quote=Anonymous]It really wouldn’t work in the US because there are so many different grading  systems, curricula etc. It’s all fine and good when you have a national curriculum and a national set of tests that everyone takes once and are graded numerically, but the US doesn’t have anything standardized that way and even SAT/ACT Are highly impacted by access to practice courses, number of times taken et cetera.[/quote]
A test doesn't need to be normed on an entire population to distinguish between top performers. The Olympiad selection exams do a fine job of distinguishing between rarefied level of academic skill in a meaningful manner.[/quote]

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