Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows

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Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows

More than 90 percent of schools on U.S. News & World Report lists of top 100 liberal arts colleges and top 100 universities nationwide are not requiring scores for admission this year. That finding comes from a Washington Post analysis of data from FairTest, a group that supports the test-optional movement. Hundreds of lesser-known schools also have dropped score mandates.
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We're well on our way to returning to the pre-WWII system, where the children of the wealthy had all the advantages, with an overlayer of "diversity" this time.

If you don't like the results, get rid of the tests.

China must be having a good laugh over this.
 
KCalhoun said:
Our country is getting dumber and dumber.
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When you've elected the provably most corrupt administration ...ever (Trump's)... and watched it put in place additional corrupt/yes-men employees/officials (inspector generals, etc.), you're not getting dumber and dumber. You've reached full tard.

As I've stated before: Dumbest generation ever.
 
It's a shame, the USA education system.... being pulled down to accommodate the students with poor work ethic. Agree re dumbest generation ever.... compare average USA student work ethic to other countries. It's a challenge for the motivated to succeed.
 
userque said:
Dumbest generation ever
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The status quo about ten years ago was that scores were UP from the last generation among every ethnic group, but the overall scores were down because more minorities were taking the tests.
 
Harvard’s Going Test-Optional. There’s a Better Way.

Although Harvard has wide discretion over admissions, it does want to keep average test scores high in order to maintain a top ranking with U.S. News and World Report and other influential surveys. That makes it risky to accept too many applicants with low scores.

Test-optional policies solve that problem because applicants who don't submit scores don't contribute to the average. Under less pressure to sustain the ranking, admissions officers can more easily reward applicants with other qualities that they consider desirable. They can also entice students with little chance of admission to apply, further pumping up the application pool and reducing the admission rate.

Public debate focuses on the implications of these policies for "underrepresented" minorities—that is, blacks and Hispanics. Even when scores were required, a 2019 study by academic economists (including an expert witness for plaintiffs in the federal case against Harvard) found these applicants enjoyed significant advantages over Asian (and to a lesser extent, white) applicants.

Yet the perennial debate about affirmative action distracts from the larger distortion. Whatever their race, legacies, athletes, and other specially recruited applicants enjoyed much higher admit rates than their test scores would predict. To put it simply, getting into Harvard is not that difficult for sports heroes or the children of alumni and donors with otherwise marginal credentials. For all the talk about equity, more than a third of Harvard's class of 2022 is composed of legacies alone.

Test-optional admissions compounds these applicants' existing privileges. Enabled by experience, connections, or money to accumulate good grades, bespoke internships, and polished essays, they'll find no difficulty generating strong applications without a meritocratic paper trail.
 
ipatent said:
Harvard Dropping SAT Requirement for Several More Years Enables More Anti-Asian Discrimination

Melissa Chen: “In light of the lawsuits, this seems convenient for Harvard. Now they can freely discriminate to achieve desired racial quotas without worrying about any data on file that would make such discrimination obvious to the casual onlooker.”
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