Posted on 03/09/2023 8:56:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Columbia University has become the first Ivy League school to officially eliminate SAT and ACT scores as a required part of its undergraduate admissions process. This effectively changes their focus from academic excellence to diversity.
The university, whose typical accepted student has achieved a near-perfect score on their standardized testing and has an average high school GPA of 4.12, announced this change last week.
Columbia’s website stated that this decision was “rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor.”
“Our review is purposeful and nuanced – respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences – in order to best determine an applicant’s suitability for admission and ability to thrive in our curriculum and our community, and to advance access to our educational opportunities.”
The Ivy League university suspended its SAT and ACT requirement during the pandemic, and last year it saw a 4% increase in admitted students of color as well as a 3% increase in first-generation college students.
Now that the university has made this change a permanent one, Columbia has assured applicants that whether or not they submit test scores will not automatically advantage/disadvantage them in the application process.
“Applicants will not have an advantage in the admissions process simply by submitting ACT or SAT results,” said university administrators. “The submission of test results will be viewed only as one additional piece of information among the many factors that we will consider in our continued practice of a holistic and contextual review process.”
By eliminating testing, colleges will focus on increasing their diversity, purposefully rejecting high-performing Asian and white applicants in favor of black and Hispanic students.
Harvard and the University of North Carolina have been served with lawsuits in which test scores were presented as evidence that they rejected Asian and white applicants who scored high on their standardized testing in order to promote diversity.
To reduce proof of preferential treatment towards racial minorities, many institutions will likely follow the trend to eliminate testing in their application process.
After Columbia University announced its removal of SAT and ACT requirements, they were immediately met with backlash from the public, many of whom express the fear that the removal of such requirements will lessen the overall intelligence of future college graduates.
Others fear that they will pay incredible amounts of money for a college education, only to have that education ‘dumbed down’ in order to include students who weren’t able to obtain a good high school education, or who weren’t willing to put in the effort to do so.
Journalist and news anchor Saagar Enjeti condemned the move and the dangerous precedent it sets, saying, “The entire US elite system is ditching merit in favor of an affirmative action regime. No test scores for college, no LSAT for law school, soon no MCAT for med school.”
Elon Musk responded to Enjeti’s tweet, saying, “Very few Americans seem to realize the severity of the situation.”
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was among the majority of colleges that made SAT and ACT scores optional during the pandemic. However, they have already reinstated the testing requirement because they recognize its importance in maintaining the institution’s reputation as one of the top universities in the world.
MIT Admissions Dean Stu Schmill explained the university’s decision to keep its testing requirements, saying that it’s “not all about who comes in the door but also who goes out.”
At one point, MIT admitted students with a wider range of test scores. This resulted in fewer students making it to graduation.
This is basically saying:
Black and Hispanic students ar stupid.....................
3 years from now there will be reports that 60% of the student body cannot write a simple essay.
Probably can’t do that NOW!...................
They have been dropping in the college ratings for years now. Watch the freefall from here.
In a related story, Columbia to print new diplomas on toilet paper.
I doubt they ever could to begin with.
The new admission exam:
Question 1: What is your skin color?
Question 2: Pronounce "ask."
So they are outright and blatantly stating that certain races are supremier than others
While they’re at it, they might as well send the graduates to Venezuela.
If it’s racist to think black students can study as hard and score as well as white students ... you might be a Democrat.
Just like the KKK and Nazis.
If you think everything is racist, you’re probably a demonrat.
I guess reading, writing, and math doesn't count for anything, Take out student loans, and party your ass off.......
Well, blacks do have IQ’s one standard deviation lower than whites, about 15 pts. They could be more straightforward and honest about the problem.
“Black and Hispanic students ar stupid”
Ultra racist, isn’t it?
“Black and Hispanic students ar stupid.....................”
Well, if you want to be diverse you have to have stupid people too. You can’t be diverse with just smart people.
“Watch the freefall from here.”
You can easily see the dominos falling:
* No entrance standards
* Reduced graduation rates
* Profs told to pass and graduate everybody with a pulse (already true in high school)
* 100% graduation rate
* Companies and professions cannot find enough people who passed the Professional Engineering exam, the Bar exam, the CPA exam, the Medical exam, etc.
* Licensing boards dumb down or eliminate their exams. Everybody gets licensed.
* Bridges fall down. People on operating tables die. Planes collide on runways. Ships sink. Trains derail. EVs electrocute occupants.
* Warranties are eliminated on all products because nothing works.
* China takes over.
Columbia produces only indoctrinated fools already.
How exciting! Segregation on lack of intellect!
They are admitting that they are white supremacists.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.