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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this shows is that getting into Harvard used to be immensely easier. People who went to Harvard in the 90s wouldn’t be in at anywhere comparable today. [/quote]

of course it was. there was a paper out studying this some time back - if you had enough money/social capital to know about and pay for SAT prep course, you're chance of admissions to Harvard was triple than pool. This was true in the. 80s and first half of the 90s. Never mind private tutoring in high school. I literally never heard of that when I was in HS. Sal Kahn really ruined everything! [/quote]

There were SAT prep books in 1985.  I think they were Stanley Kaplan. Princeton Review books appeared in time for my grad exam prepping. My husband lived in a low income area and they had a cursory prep class available taught by a teacher in 1987.

I didn't know anybody who took an expensive class at a center or who had a private tutor. We also were led to believe that you could not game the test and it was somewhat dependent on your inherent intellect and years of learning. Princeton Review broke me of that mindset and helped me from 85th percentile math to 98th percentile math on GMAT.

I am still marveling about superscoring as practiced now.[/quote]

We had an SAT prep class at my public HS back in HS in the 80s. And people took it multiple times and referred to their superscore (though it wasn’t called that then).  
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