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Reply to "is there a nationally known US university that just admits on test scores?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why you would want a school that used grades and test scores alone. Test scores are objective measures, but measures of what? There is raw ability, but then there is what you do with it. Colleges want to see that you get things done. There are plenty of cab drivers in Mensa.[/quote] Colleges don’t actually have the ability to “see that you get things done.” They don’t actually spend that long considering any particular application based on everything I have heard from people familiar with the process, and they certainly can’t and don’t look beyond the paperwork submitted. So they pick those who can best optimize how things look on paper. This is different than evaluating real accomplishment, especially as it stretches into more subjective areas, and IMO their attempt to do so mostly just adds noise and randomness to the process, although it admittedly allows the colleges to be smug about the whole thing. [/quote]
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