If you live in Iowa you take the ACT since it’s headquartered in Iowa City.
A thinly veiled way to enact affirmative action without having to deal with the legalities of it. Classic move - if something is hard to achieve, simply lower the standards.
Seriously? Admission on GPA and a 2 minute video clip?
That’s a set up for failure. Unless they get rid of grading classes all together and just take money and hand out a graduation certificate. Which is another set up for failure when they try to take on an actual challenging job.
“We don’t care what you know! We care about how gullible you are!”
Everybody gets a trophy!
We just keep moving downward....
So he admits that all those decades requiring testing were in error.
One needs to get rid of the SAT test in order to discriminate against Asians and Whites.
Race to the bottom - ready, set, go!
Univ of Chicago used to be a prestigious school ...
Baloney. This jackwagon just wants to "qualify" minorities who are incompetent.
The dumb-ing down of America continues.
I have one in college, one looking to go to college next yr, and a 13 yo. My wife is a teacher. Our houshold has some insight here.
There’s a lot of good, academically qualified kids out there. Problem is they’re only about 10% of the population(my estimate), of that, about 1-2% are highly qualified.
We get a University of Chicago flier about every two weeks, (and phone calls too). Maybe their problem is with geography? Maybe the problem is less highly academically qualified students?
You think I want to send my kid to Chicago to go to school? Sorry NOT!
I can see the dumb-ing down all around us, and it seems to be picking up steam. Why cut a standard of admissions which measures ability, unless you may not be getting enough students to choose from who meet those requirements?
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Curious to this move of their’s.
Merit is racist.
> he didn’t want “one little test score” to end up “scaring students off” who are otherwise qualified <
I wonder what he means by “otherwise qualified” (rhetorical question).
A lot of business schools have stopped requiring the GMAT. Its ability to predict success in graduate business classes has been questioned.
Top ten research institution according to who?
Resume from University of Chicago? We’ll keep it on file. (Circular file, that is.)
My son is getting close to his college years. He is a sophomore but has taken the ACT and SAT already.
This past week, he took an ACT prep class, eight hours a day for five days.
He took past ACT’s everyday plus the training. His score went up six points at the end of the week.
I felt like he had to do the training because kids up East will often take the test 10 or 15 times in their high school career. He has to get good at it just to compete.
Schools like University of Chicago probably have 25% or more of their incoming students get a perfect score on the ACT.
So, in some respects, the test is kind of worthless as kids who make these tests a priority slant the results, but there is no other way to get in the best and brightest.
I doubt they will keep this plan in place for too long!
They want people like Hogg to attend.