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[quote=Anonymous]Test scores and GPA are idiotic, but inexpensive and inexact.

For God's sake, Ted Cruz went to Princeton! Surely he had good tests scores and grades but he's a thoroughly despicable humanoid thing, a lump of cells with a brain attached, but no values, compassion, empathy, spine or moral compass.

If human value were judged appropriately, tests scores and grades would mean nothing at all.

But of course, who has time to do all those written evaluations, and who has time to read them all, and judge the motivations of the writers?

The SAT is idiotic. My older kid took it three times and got a nearly perfect score (missed one question) on the math section the third time she took it. The first time she took it, she barely broke 600 (I can't remember her exact scores).

How can that mean anything? Nearly 200 points separated her first and last score. Is she an idiot at math or a genius? You couldn't know if you only looked at her first score, but you'd assume she leans toward idiot.

To answer OP: Of course test scores won't go away! They are "optional" whatever that means. Kids who get good scores will submit them, and those kids will likely have an edge over the other kids who don't submit them.

It's easier, simpler and cheaper that way. [/quote]

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