Sorry, but ignoring SAT/ACT scores will just result in more kids getting in over their head at the better schools. And these same kids will be saddled with debt from the experience that they are less able to pay off. More sacrificial lambs at the altar of Diversity.
The implication here is that the general admission standard of the school will decline as it will become (for all practical purposes) entirely subjective. Or rather, I suspect that the selective admission of favored minorities wont change much.
I suspect the real reason for the change is not to increase “diversity” so much as it is to discourage Asian applicants.
Above some level, say 90 percentile, however, the SAT, at least, provides no valid basis for discriminating on ability because, sadly, the Princeton Testing Service is perfectly capable of generating questions that have no correct answer or, in fact, an answer which they presume to be correct, but is in fact wrong. As but one example, they have banished the subjunctive from English. Their essay section was graded by folks who believed that essays should be written according to a set pattern, without regard to style or intent.
And some of their deductive reasoning questions are based upon tacit assumptions that can be questioned and if someone makes a different assumption gets the wrong answer.
For instance, the topical sentence might be the best lead-in to an article, but another sentence that grabs the readers attention and gets him to read the article might be the best first sentence with the topical sentence further down.
‘ignoring SAT/ACT scores will just result in more kids getting in over their head at the better schools..
I did well on the SAT/ACT test, and did not have to take some Freshman courses.
“Sorry, but ignoring SAT/ACT scores will just result in more kids getting in over their head at the better schools.”
Just treat them like sports players and just pass them on through.