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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SAT is a racist test.  There is no reason to go back to it. [/quote]

The SAT is the best measure to identify and elevate smart and brilliant minority kids who are otherwised overlooked and ignored by test optional.

Test optional specifically benefits mediocre wealthy students of all colors and races.[/quote]
Can you explain how they’re overlooked? If you don’t have good grades, you are not qualified. [/quote]
Grades are subjective, and then there's grade inflation.  K-12 public in CA is a mess. It's why we left CA (that an housing prices are insane in the Bay Area).  Prop 13 really messed up the education budget.  While CA spends a lot, it also costs a lot more to live there, so I bet if you adjust the spending by cost, CA ends up not spending much per pupil.

I went through K-12 and public college in CA, and Prop 13 hit when I entered in jr high school (as it was called then).  Lots of things were cut.  My older siblings had things that I didn't have in MS/HS.

The high achieving students I know in CA who go to Cal/UCLA took the SAT and scored high (1500+).

TO is hurting the very kids the UC  is trying to help, namely by admitting them into college unprepared, which causes them to struggle, which causes them to drop out.[/quote]
If the grades are so inflated, why would you take a student with poor grades then? This seems very circular. The issue sounds like they need to fix grades first. The SAT sounds more like a buffer for a much more severe issue.[/quote]

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