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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policies might sound nice. But, in reality, these policies merely allow the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an edge for their children’s admission to the top universities (especially private universities). [/quote] Not true. Lower income kids score lower as a group on these tests. And this is for a variety of reasons [/quote] There’s an important nuance here: kids from the top 20% of households do better on the SAT than kids from lower quintiles. But “upper middle class” kids (80-95th percentile incomes) do better on test-only admissions than they do on holistic admissions. That’s because a decent education, while often beyond the reach of the poor, is much less expensive than the other kinds of enrichment activities that very high income families can support. [/quote]
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