Posted on 03/28/2022 12:46:35 PM PDT by karpov
After careful consideration, we have decided to reinstate our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants, and also help us identify socioeconomically disadvantaged students who lack access to advanced coursework or other enrichment opportunities that would otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is more equitable and transparent than a test-optional policy. In the post below — and in a separate conversation with MIT News today — I explain more01 about how we think this decision helps us advance our mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at mitadmissions.org ...
So, the SAT works better than the CRT.
“Our research can’t explain WHY these tests are so predictive…”
It’s a real mystery.
The only local kid I’ve heard about going to MIT was a black girl who was valedictorian at a small HS. She was incredibly disadvantaged, what with her dad being a second generation doctor and all.
Standardized tests are the best measures of success in college and the level a student should be placed.
The U.S. has had very good systems for doing things that help people and help society in general.
The left has worked decades to destroy these things using ruses that ring emotionally but aren’t logical.
Bottom 10 %
Thomas Sowell has written extensively about it.
i didn’t know mit did not require sat /act. That surprises me.
Yep. A small move back toward sanity.
Thomas Sowell has done research on that for decades.
It’s why those tests exist
Er, nothing. That's the point.
They might pass their names to a business that promises for a fee to teach kids some of the stuff their high schools in Bed-Stuy left out. A good 5 percent of those kids will learn from those courses and get into a decent college and have a decent life. That would legitimately belong in the "win" column.
I'm a former college Trustee, just reading between the lines.
One of the big problems with underqualified people being admitted is that the failure rate will be come apparent and that, of course, will portray MIT and their reputation as a racist system.
Picking students according to intelligence and high school performance ... what a novel idea.
Bad affirmative action admits used to drop out when they found that they could not work to the level of their peers. Not anymore. Their lack of success due to basic lack of talent, poor preparation and lack of study skills and work ethic is now blamed on systemic racism, racial discrimination and constant acts of malicious micro aggression by faculty and staff exercising their white and yellow privilege . They mau mau the faculty into giving them A+ grades to avoid legal action so they keep their full ride scholarships and stick around as a protected class . The Ivy League schools and places like Stanford and Berkley have soft Liberal arts curriculum and ethnic/identity study departments where they can park these entitled, non performing freeloaders but as a hard core tech school MIT does not have the academic course diversity to support diversity studies and students.
MIT just suspended the tests because of Covid.
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Exactly! Now MIT has excellent liberal arts departments, so that MIT students can be well rounded. But at MIT the science departments dominate and call the shots. The science profs and assistant profs refuse to baby sit hundreds of affirmative action students.
Thus MIT went back to tests for incoming students. Same as goes on in all universities in Europe.
As an alumni who hasn’t kept up, I’m shocked to learn they dropped standardized tests for a while. Sadly, there has been an administrative bent towards liberality over the past generation.
Still a great center of learning.
Those football fields need the lines freshened. I'm jus' sayin'!
MIT just discovered that standardized testing helps sort out candidates for admission? Those people must be stupid. Who would want to go there?
I typed alum. My phone corrected me. Gimme a break.
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