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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a shock.  Like it or not AOs just can’t identify the kids with the 4.5 GPAs who deserve to be admitted from those that are the beneficiaries of rampant grade inflation.

Colleges are having to do too much in the way of remedial classes which is hurting their 4 and 6 year graduation numbers which impacts their rankings.

What makes matters worse is that today it isn’t that hard to score well on the SAT/ACT.   Hopefully moving it online will restore some rigor to testing.  [/quote]
If it wasn’t hard to score well, then I assume more than 1% would score a 1530.[/quote]

SAT scores have be “normalized” a few times leading to compression of scores at the upper end.  Combined with the cottage industry around test prep you now have 75K kids scoring 1500/35 or better on the SAT and ACT.  More than enough to fill all the freshman slots at the top 20 ranked schools.

So while test scores help schools by validating whose inflated GPA was earned they are not the discriminator they once were. [/quote]

Fewer than 3,000 individuals each year achieve a score of 1600 or 36 on their first attempt.

Eliminate super scoring and establish a re-take cap of 1 (perhaps 2 with a documented reason), and that number will barely rise above 8,000 individuals.

They are the real outliers …[/quote]

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