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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No asshole it’s that’s not everything isn’t about a stupid test and maybe we value other important things in life and also we were feed the idea that it measures intelligence, so the Why prep for something that is intelligence based. Not every community is obsessed with status. [/quote]

Of course not everything is about a test.  But, a significant portion of college admissions *is* about the SAT/ACT.  If you, or the black community, value other things in life, go for it.  But that comes at a cost.

The more you post, though, the more I come to believe that your "thoughts" about the black community are nonsense, and you're just not very bright.   And that is the most charitable thing I can say about you.  [/quote]

DP: Wow, your interpretation of her/his post is wildly off the mark.  Actually she is pointing to something that is well-supported by research--not just in the black community, but more generally in  the US.  We tend towards a fixed mindset about intelligence/intelligence tests and SATs are billed as a test of intelligence.  Asian communities tend towards an effort-based approach to tests.  She was pointing out that this was such an ingrained part of the culture (which it was in my middle class white upbringing too) that she didn't even realize you could practice for it.   She pointed to how she changed when she figured out that she could study for the MCAT.  Yes, the fixed mindset has limitations, but it was a cultural pattern that has shaped a lot of practices in US community--there isn't a culture of test prep.  Sure, now that so many people are "prepping"  it has grown, but it's a reluctant acceptance--because we have a world-class university system that wasn't based on test prep.  And since many elite colleges are responding to the massive test prep for a test that doesn't predict much by becoming test optional, she's not alone in her views.[/quote]

Not the PP you’re responding to but when I took the SATs 25 years ago Kaplan and Princeton Review would bombard us all with their marketing for test prep courses and books.  You couldn’t possibly not realize that prep was an option.  You could choose to ignore it of course but that’s an issue of priorities.  And nobody bills these college admissions standardized tests as general IQ tests.....that’s not how they are positioned nor perceived.[/quote]

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