It’s more difficult to cheat on the SAT. You can generate whatever grades you want for the kids you prefer to advance to college.
GPAs are pretty much worthless. (Certainly in publik skools, and very probably in a good many universities - especially when associated with the ubiquitous no-brain majors.)
SATs? Probably not as revealing as they used to be back before “allowances” were made for certain “situations”, but still not bad.
Looks like just another way for Democrats to control and keep failing programs.
The most important scores will be their diversity scores.
As the libs say, “Diversity makes us stronger.” — Yeah, right.
Wouldn’t the liberals consider ANY minimal standards on tests or grades to be discriminatory? And we know the liberals oppose discrimination.
Thank goodness for an emphasis on the SAT and ACT. What allowed my high GPA kids to distinguish themselves from the “legacies” and other so-called elites were their high test scores. They both got into coveted “elite” universities. It has made some difference in their lives.
Biden’s and Kennedy’s and movie stars’ kids, just can’t hack it when the criteria is objective.
How about just starting out in a junior college?
I like an index rather than a single measure if the components make sense and each has a reasonable floor. 880 is beyond reasonable.
“At a time when only 41 percent of college students graduate in four years—and only 56 percent in five year”
I wonder if older students who are working full time and returning to college to work on / complete their degree is altering that statistic? I went up the IT certification path and only when HR said they could no longer promote me, did I go back and get a degree. A four year part time student could take eight or nine years to finish.
“Requiring an 880 on the SAT is not onerous.”
It is unfair to minorities
Having taught at the college/univ level for nearly a decade, those 5-6 students were utter idiots who had no business in college/univ at all, period! But yeah, thank the tard Dems for wrecking trade schools etc which would have been a viable alternative for many of theses type students. No you have colleges and univs LOWERING their GPA and SAT score requirements to get even more young ‘know-it-all’ dipsh*ts into ‘higher education’......
Higher education is for everyone? NO! Assembly line academics all for the $$$$......
Any form of competency testing will have disparate impact on some group, somehow, somewhere. The left is now at war with competency testing across the board.
I think I could have gotten an 880 on the SAT in fourth grade.
A high GPA indicates that you at least cared enough to show up for classes and do the work assigned more than adequately, then test well. A high SAT only indicates that you are a good test-taker.