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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, did you really need a slide ruler to figure this one out?

Grade inflation is everywhere. Half the kids these days are academic frauds/jokes yet somehow still get straight As.  How is that possible? When I was in highschool, As were reserved for the top 5-10% of the class.  Cs are for average work.  Your typical kid is a B- to C student, yet teachers and schools are too afraid to hand out real grades.

If vast majority of kids have fake grades, how else do you suggest we weed through the garbage without testing?  Testing forces students to demonstrate that they have a mastery of the knowledge their grades purportedly show that they have. If a straight A student has mediocre SAT scores, then you can bet they're really just a B-C student propped up on grade inflation fraud.

Stop trying to water down American education.  It will be catastrophic for the country's ability to innovate and compete if we keep handing out unearned spots to medicocre individuals.  MIT is just saying in a nice, PC way what we all want to really say.  MIT is sick of kids slipping in who need remedial work and who are dragging down the quality of classes.  MIT has a reputation to uphold.[/quote]

Old man/woman yells at clouds alert.

Thirty years ago kids were maxing out at BC calc. [b]Now they take it in 10th or 11th grade[/b].  Science consisted of three subjects and minimal lab time. Computer science barely existed.

All that to say, placing any significant weight on the SAT is a choice but hardly the only correct one.

But sure tell me how much smarter kids were back in the day. You’re delusional. [/quote]

Not that I disagree with what you said, but you should know that very, very few kids have access to in-person Calc BC in 10th or 11th grade.[/quote]

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