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The fewer objective measurements, the more opaque cherry-picking they can do.

And in the near future, you'll wonder why they have way fewer Asian students graduates...

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It’s not objective. You can game the test, pay for test tutoring and increase scores. The only proven correlation between SATs and ACTs is income. [/quote]

[b]An 1100 can’t game their way into a 1500.[/b]   A kid could go up 100 points or something, but it’s not hugely significant.  The people who will lose out are the smart kids in not-great schools or not-great backgrounds who will lose out on the opportunity to show what they are capable of in an objective way.  There will be shining stars who miss out on opportunities to rise out of their circumstances due to this change.  It’s not the win that people arguing for it think it is.  [/quote]

It’s entirely possible. My DC had a score in the 1200s on the SAT, and just a few weeks of (expensive) tutoring took him from a 31 to a 34 on the ACT. He didn’t even work that hard at it. He was a bright straight-A kid to begin with, and he just needed some practice and help with test strategy. This experience did convince me that $$ can make a difference in test scores. Of course there are practice materials on line, but how many kids are going to do that without a lot of parental encouragement (which assumes the parents know about it and understand how important it is)?

That said, I do think schools are on their way to rendering grades meaningless and test scores are one standardized measure that does seem to predict success in college. I don’t know what the answer is. [/quote]

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