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Its the middle income kids who miss out.  You can get evaluations via medicaid.  Most kids who have real needs have them documented from an early age.  That should be considered when getting accommodations.  There are kids, but usually ones who fall through the cracks who go unnoticed for many years but if you get to high school and no one does anything about it, then its probably gaming the system.  The tests are geared so basically kids who are smart/high IQ.  So, those of us not so high IQ's aren't going to do as well so just give IQ tests.  The SAT/ACT has been flawed for many years.  This is nothing new.  New is they actually investigated it and decided to do something about it.  Real question is why now?[/quote]

Some kids aren’t diagnosed until the demands on their abilities increase ten-fold in middle or high school. Their problems are still real.

That said, the real problem with the SAT is that it benefits kids who get expensive test prep and/or grew up in UMC families that used large vocabularies since birth. This has been studied extensively.

Another, more subtle, advantage is being full pay at a school that costs $70k. You get an admissions bump to support the FA kids. None of the ivies offers merit aid. Yes, someone always chimes in that Harvard offers generous FA, but the rest don’t. And most families don’t have Jared Kushner’s “development” potential.

I say this as the parent of a white DD who got into a USNWR top 5 on merit with national-level ECs[/quote]

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