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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The application process has to be approved by central office.  No way they bring back test scores without significant parent push.  That won’t happen because the parents most affected by this have seventh or eighth graders.  So once they are admitted or not, they don’t have incentive to fight the application process.[/quote]

Maybe someone can tell the overlords in Central about the research that demonstrates that minority applicants have been disadvantaged by schools not considering standardized tests scores when making admissions decisions.[/quote]

Does that research exist? I’ve never seen it.

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here you go:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/test-optional-admissions-underprivileged-students-dartmouth

And here is the study, "NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
HOW TEST OPTIONAL POLICIES IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS DISPROPORTIONATELY
HARM HIGH ACHIEVING APPLICANTS FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS":

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33389/w33389.pdf[/quote]

Thanks for taking the time to find and share these links. I hadn’t know this! I believe that DCPS stopped using test scores for HS admissions a few years ago because they felt like it led to selective public schools being too full of privileged students, but I don’t know if it worked to diversify the student bodies at these schools. [/quote]

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