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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]

Please, they have known the whole time that SAT does not measure anything except how much families can pay for prep courses and therefore tuition. You all get that college admissions are actually not a meritocracy?[/quote]

The idea that standardized tests don't measure intelligence is absolutely preposterous. They may not be perfect, but they are a damn good indicator. Anyone involved in screening and admitting students at the PhD level knows this well (although the quantitative scores will be a better indicator of intelligence than the verbal scores). Give me thirty minutes to sit down and talk to a PhD applicant and I will guess their GRE score within a few percentile every time. If standardized test scores are not predicting college success, it's not because of "prepping" or a failure of those tests to predict intelligence - it is because either our college courses are so basic that you don't  actually have to be intelligent to succeed, or that we have inflated grades so incredibly much on the lower end that it camoflauges the horrendous intellectual ability of the bottom 30% of the class. Spoiler alert, it's option number 2.[/quote]

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