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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's fantastic.  Study after study after study has confirmed the high correlation between family income and parental education and SAT and ACT scores.  Generally speaking, high scores were born on third base.  It doesn't make them any smarter.  [/quote]

Come on, people with 1500+ scores are objectively smarter than people with 1100.[/quote]

Exactly correct. Also means that the 1500 is READY for college on day one. By arbitrarily deciding that objective measures should be tossed aside (even if you think there is a justification for doing so), you risk filling these institutions with students who are not prepared. Quite a disservice to those students and to the schools.

It also happens to be incredibly insulting to high achieving students in poor performing schools (where the SAT may be the ONLY thing to distinguish them).  Did anyone in the UC system stop to think that the SAT may be the ONLY aspect of an application that the kid has to do for themselves.  Sure, kids can be prepped, but the kid has to actually sit for the test.  (If you want to help, maybe plow money into helping prep poor kids for the test.) But, by removing it, you have an entire application that is far more subject to influence, money, ambiguity, and shenanigans. Removing this will most certainly not be a panacea for all inequity. It will undoubtedly have the opposite impact.

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