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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has yet to explain how prepping for a test is different than studying for a test.  [b]Lots of free resources available for test prep. Ok [/b][/quote]

No one wants to acknowledge this.  The "anti-SAT" crowd wants any semblance of standardized measurement of ability removed so we can no longer call the admitted crowd "not qualified".   See what's happening at a lot of colleges this year. Most admissions offices are filled with left-leaning, SLAC-bred AOs.   They are having a field day capitalizing on the "test optional" situation to bring on kids who fit their model of "preferred ability" over kids with actual ability over without impacting their US News rankings game.  If all those admits were to take the SAT, we will know where they will land.

Will these admits survive the "rigors" of college.  Of course they will.. dumba** athletes and legacy admits have been doing that for years.  [/quote]

The "my privilege gave my kids a high SAT score so they must be smart" crowd doesn't want to acknowledge the ONLY thing an SAT can tell you on an aggregate basis is how wealthy a kid's family is.

I get that you love the notion of being born on third base and claiming that you reached home plate by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, but your failure to acknowledge or understand mountains of academic research makes you seem not to have much "actual ability" -- at least as far as evidence based policymaking goes.

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You seem to be selectively ignoring that this thread has been about kids who also have excellent grades and have taking rigorous courses .  So by your logic, neither grades nor test scores matter, and admissions staffs just have incredible prognosticating abilities.  [/quote]

What an odd, nonsensical take.  I'm the PP you are responding to.  I've made the point several times in this thread that high school GPA is a better predictor of college success than SAT scores and is far less correlated to SES.  So, colleges -- who are familiar with this research -- are rightly ditching SAT scores and focusing on grades.

With that in mind, do you want to try again?[/quote]

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