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[quote=Anonymous]Admissions based on tests usually is heavily skewed towards quant kids. A system based solely on tests would bias against humanities kids. It also wouldn't factor in well-roundedness and people skills.

I live in NYC. I think the SHSAT process is good and shouldn't be messed with. But I wouldn't let my kid within a mile of Stuy. He is smart enough to go there. And there are plenty of great, relatively normal kids there. But there are way too many whose whole purpose in life was preparing for that test and have little else going for them. Bronx Science is slightly better.

I would not send my kid to the college version of this. Because in most lines of work, people skills and non-quantitative problem solving skills matter.

I do not know how you solve for this. The current system is far from perfect.

One solution is to revert the SAT to the old scoring model where high scores meant something. Then have schools that focus almost solely on test scores. But have plenty of schools that are more like the current model where test scores matter but a lot else also does. Then see where kids choose to go, where companies choose to hire, etc.[/quote]

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