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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are some truly dense people on DCUM who keep saying URMs are unqualified based test scores.  This isn't China!  If you want a system based entirely on test scores, you are in the wrong country. [/quote]

+1000

Anyone who's enlightened about the history of the United States and its implementation of standardized testing, and the racist objective should know this.

The SAT / ACT is fake " merit"

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But SAT + GPA + Activities + Leadership + Intereview is most likely not  :wink: [/quote]

GPA and rigor is the primary basis for academic merit. Period.

The rest like ECs, leadership, interviews is to help elite colleges shape a class.[/quote]

I agree with MIT and think Test + GPA and rigor combination is the primary basis for acedemic merit.  
Schools want to throw in the other factors, so let it be.

What I don't agree is throwing in race.[/quote]

Good for you and MIT.

1800 other schools - including all of the Ivies - have a different opinion.[/quote]

Yes.

Like CalTech (#9 in USNWR), a peer of MIT:

"CalTech said an internal study revealed standardized test scores “have little to no power” predicting academic performance in required mathematics and physics courses for first-year students in the institute’s core curriculum."

Funny. Since MIT made its decision to reinstate standardized testing, how many elite schools followed them?

Crickets.[/quote]

The SAT is way too easy to serve as a measure for readiness at Caltech (and MIT or any other elite math, physics, or engineering program). 
It’s a classic example of using a test with an enormous ceiling effect to predict performance, and then finding that it doesn’t predict performance for kids at the top end.

If they used the AMC12, the test would work just fine. [/quote]

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