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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I predict “holistic admissions” will backfire in a few years. [/quote]

Really?  Why?  It's been around a long time you know.  Seems to be working fine for the colleges that choose it.[/quote]

test scores were part of it, maybe there were ignored in a case or two, but you weren't getting into an Ivy League school with a 1050 SAT. Now that they're gone, I think you're going to have more kids struggling with the college course load. You can get good grades and do a ton of great volunteer work and still be wholly unprepared for college. The tests gave schools an indication this, but without them, you'll have kids showing up to Ivy League schools needing remedial classes[/quote]
I am the person the pp was responding too. I agree with this response. I also think grades from half of junior year were pass/fail or inconsistent.
So if you’re not going off test scores and GPAs are not all that comparable, how are you choosing students who will succeed in college classes? 
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All th eoher parts of the application which have alway been present and considered.  And what exactly did you want all the ivies and every other college to do?  Just carry on as if we are not in the middle of a pandemic?[/quote]
Florida colleges didn’t waive tests. Everybody was able to make it happen if they needed to. 
[b]This was an easy way to put more emphasis on diversity and first gen students.[/b] [/quote]

Evidence of this?[/quote]
Harvard was 20% first gen students. 
I mean, c’mon. [/quote]

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