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It's not me that has identified standardized testing as inadequate. It's the world's top universities, which are essentially businesses tasked with acquiring and nurturing top talent.

If shunning these exams is good enough for Caltech, then it's more than good enough for TJ.[/quote]

DP.  Elite universities can ignore the ACT or SAT, because they have plenty of applicants with extraordinary achievements to select from.  ACTs and SATs are meaningless when they get applicants who are Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalists, or kids who make it to the USA Math Olympiad, or any other notable accomplishment.  They also frequently ask for things like AMC scores, and they still look at AP exam scores.

I would have no problem with TJ eliminating their entrance exams, providing that they instead looked at Mathcounts placement, AMC 8 scores, AMC 10 scores, Science Olympiad placement, etc.  [/quote]

Why? Not everyone has the same extracurricular opportunities or desires. Why look at things like  science Olympiad placement when 1) not all teams are treated the same or perform the same, and 2) not all students who would be interested or willing to participate are able to due to family constraints?[/quote]

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