Reply to I hate test optional!

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "I hate test optional!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Why are we subtracting for "hooks"? Why not just accept the smartest kids?[/quote] Because the traditional measures of college ready students (GPA, Rigor and Scores) are woefully low for URMs and would disqualify nearly all from admission. 15 years ago (latest study) there were [b]less than 244 African Americans out of over 150k AAs that took the test, who scored 1500+ on the SAT. (Just 73 total in 2003)[/b] That is a problem for progressive schools that want to prove their commitment to diversity politically. Enter “holistic evaluations.” http://www.jbhe.com/features/49_college_admissions-test.html The fact that they fail out and/or switch majors to less rigorous ones doesn’t matter. Many are over their head and would be more successful if they went to their “match” schools. [/quote] These numbers cannot be right. Not possible with all the higher income and college educated African Americans in he system. [/quote]
To add to this, the test changed twice since then.  The current test, redesigned in 2016, is not comparable.  College Board no longer releases the level of detail indicated by the above study.  All we have is this: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/pdf/sat-percentile-ranks-gender-race-ethnicity.pdf[/quote]

Nope. There are better numbers out there. I found them myself. Do the research at college board.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics