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Reply to "the Atlantic: The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this. Aren't admissions more competitive than ever? Aren't these the superhuman students who aced the hardest classes, scored extremely highly on SATs, had very time-consuming ECs....? We are told nobody has a chance at these schools, and yet, those who are actually there, can't read a book? How is this possible.[/quote] SAT optional yields these kinds of students.[/quote] There are plenty of 1550+ SAT scorers that didn't read all that much in HS. For all the shortcomings of the AP English classes, they actually provide good preparation for SAT questions...and then along with kids prepping, it produces plenty of high verbal scores. SAT used to ask analogies and vocabulary, and those types of questions better aligned with a kid that read a ton vs. one that didn't.[/quote]
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