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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All children are not the same.  Not all schools are the same.   Grades inflation/deflation, courses offered, socioeconomic status etc - different around the entire US.  Schools will need to figure out how to evaluate when there is a "standardized" dataset to compare.

This year many schools that did not require SAT scores used their big data sets by [b]zipcode, school district, family income and gpa to determine what the student would have gotten[/b] on the SAT/ACT.  They have enough data to come up that evaluation.   This significantly helped students who have higher GPAs at highly regarded zip codes/schools but do poorly on standardized tests.

Changes will be made once these college see their actual yield versus their planned yield.  If they gave acceptances to kids who choose not to come, they know their metrics for evaluation need to be reassessed.  The HS class of 2023 will see the impact of these changes.

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Do you have real evidence that schools are doing this?  It would be directly contrary to the stated admissions policy of every school that I know of to embrace economic bias in this way, and if it got out that schools are giving an admissions boost for being from a rich zip code, then it would be an enormous scandal.  The reason that many schools say they are doing away with standardized test scores is precisely the correlation between being from a wealthy zip code and high test scores.  Using zip code as a proxy for test scores would directly undermine this.[/quote]

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