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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absent a disability, if your daughter performs poorly on tests, then she is not  near the 99th percentile that needs to be at a top school.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]You have any clue about how my daughter performed on tests and her intelligence to boot from some generic post information? Talk about dumb and uneducated. [/quote]

I taught in the Ivy League, and you are calling me uneducated?  You are in denial about me and probably about your daughter.

The SAT has proven predictive power for freshman college performance.  It does not measure everything, but there are limits to a 3-hour test.  It is the same test for everyone.  By contrast, students have different teachers with different grading curves.  That is quite unfair.

Colleges dropped tests because of declining enrollments during Covid.  They also wanted to fill their diversity goals under BLM political pressure.  Basically, they wanted to covertly lower standards.  It is too bad, because standardized tests are an excellent way of finding talented poor kids from bad schools.  Admission is like triage.  Some kids are obvious admits; some are obvious rejects.  But it is hard to fill all the seats with capable students.  Without tests, colleges admit more mediocre students from safe, reliable "W" schools, and overlook poor, smart, first-generation kids.  Or they admit bad URM's who flunk out.[/quote]

Nope, if colleges thought they needed tests to predict success, they would require them. [/quote]

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