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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Higher education shoud be mainly for acedemic merit and must be color blind.
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"Of 35,000 applicants competing for 1,600 spots in the class of 2019, 2,700 had perfect verbal SAT scores; 3,400 had perfect math SAT scores; more than 8,000 had perfect GPAs."

From the facts in the actual case. Now what?[/quote]

Somethings happening with the SAT that there are that many perfect scores.  There used to be that many scoring over 700.[/quote]

I’m not sure what time periods your comparing, but one issue is that more people are deliberately prepared for the SATs, and more people are spending more time — both in and outside of school — preparing for them.  [b]Many years ago, outside perhaps some of prep-schools, most students just took the tests one time, with zero specific preparation.  [/b]The thought, then, was that the SATs reflected ability more than the predictable results of a decade or more of coaching.

tldr: more kids being coached means more kids with higher—and even perfect — scores.  [/quote]

When and where was this? 
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DC.  I attended a Public School. This was definitely the case at least through the ‘80s.  I took the SAT once, Achievement tests in (I think) 3 subject areas, and one AP exam — which included a hand written essay.  No coaching, no specific prep materials.  I got into Harvard and Yale, among other schools.  The good part about that is that it was a very low stress experience, because I had no idea that the scores were important.

No one advised me about choosing schools, or helped me in any way with the essays — which were different for each application.

So a lot more kids are taking the tests, a lot more kids are taking them more than once (I didn’t realize that you could do this then), and a lot of families and schools are doing coaching and tutoring — even in primary grades — with the eventual goal of scoring well on these tests.

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