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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really think that TO changed much of anything for colleges. It's just there to confuse parents imo.

Before this cycle, they had other policies that effectively discounted value of the scores for some students over others.

Now, they are leaving it up to the parents to decide, probably because parents have sued over what they did in their offices.

I think it's bad for the students, however. SAT does have predictive value in how students do academically in college. It's not a coincidence that a lot of these selective schools are opening tutoring centers at the same time that more of their applicants have been accepted applying TO. You'll hear eggheads debate this and come up with gerryrigged data to refute it, but the SAT has been around for a long time. Also, common sense.[/quote]

I agree that TO has been there simply to provide plausible deniability to college admissions offices. Harvard doesn't need another lawsuit against their admissions office and administration. There will always be inequities in admissions at schools like Harvard and Princeton. It's impossible for their offices to be totally fair. Applicants are people. They have turned them into algorithms as much as people can be so transformed, but that doesn't ensure absolute fairness.

I have a senior applying to university this year and I refuse to lose a worry to this.[/quote]

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