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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, when applying to UMD a candidate can send the SAT score (if that's good enough) or not. The acceptance criteria don't take into consideration that score at all, right? If that's the case, how do they decide who's academically fit? High School grades? [/quote]

Maybe middle school.

They know what they need to see and have realized that kids who prep for a 4 hour test and do well are not the kids who do well over the course of 4 years.  Add in a good essay and extra curriculars and suddenly the standardized tests don't mean much.

Look up information about Wake Forest and why they don't use it.  [/quote]

yep - people who can afford it take classes to improve their score so it just becomes a way to keep the poor down instead of a measure of merit[/quote]

This is actually not true.  I grew up poor, never took a prep class and ended up at Stanford because I could prove my chops on a standardized test.  Poor kids now: 1) have Khan Academy and many other on-line resources; 2) can ride a bike to the library to borrow a test prep book; 3) baby-sit for an hour and buy a test prep book; 4) apply for payment exemptions from both the College Board and ACT.

The idea that college is not a meritocracy is not coming from the use of standardized tests, it is definitely other things, including the elimination of all academic standards in the name of equity.[/quote]

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