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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This paragraph in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html

tells us the state of admissions without standardized scores.  It is a lottery!  If it is a lottery don't you want more tickets which means more applications?  The price of the ticket is time spent filling out more applications and extreme stress for the kids.

Comeaux — a professor of higher education at the University of California, Riverside, and co-chair of the state’s review of standardized tests — favors this approach. He agrees that the SAT and ACT predict later success. But he prefers a stripped-down admissions system in which colleges set minimum requirements, based largely on high school grades, and then admit students by lottery. “Having a lottery,” Comeaux said, “would make us radically rethink what it means to gain access and also to learn, rather than accepting the status quo.”[/quote]

You want more tickets in the SAME DRAWING to improve your odds.

Applying to 20 schools is playing 20 DIFFERENT lotteries. They are independent draws.

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The ENTIRE college process is ONE DRAW.[/quote]

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