Posted on 04/11/2024 12:26:44 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
Harvard College will require applicants to submit standardized test scores once again, becoming the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic.
The university had previously said it would remain test-optional through the 2025-2026 application cycle....
Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic. Dartmouth College, Yale and Brown universities announced similar changes in recent weeks, after officials cited data suggesting that SAT and ACT scores were the best predictors of students’ academic performance at their schools — and that making the tests optional could further disadvantage applicants from more challenging backgrounds.
Standardized tests have been debated for decades, with critics saying they added a roadblock for disadvantaged students, among other concerns. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down testing sites across the country, many colleges made the tests optional, and then continued to provide flexibility as they studied the issue. ...
In announcing its decision Thursday, university officials cited research by Harvard professors Raj Chetty and David J. Deming, and co-author John N. Friedman of Brown University, who used data from hundreds of universities and more than 3 million undergraduate students per year to explore socioeconomic diversity and admissions. “Critics correctly note that standardized tests are not an unbiased measure of students’ qualifications, as students from higher-income families often have greater access to test prep and other resources,” Chetty said in a statement Thursday. “But the data reveal that other measures — recommendation letters, extracurriculars, essays — are even more prone to such biases. Considering standardized test scores is likely to make the admissions process at Harvard more meritocratic while increasing socioeconomic diversity.” ...
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I guess the DEI dunces have become pretty obvious in the classroom.
Raj Chetty and his co-ethnics will still ruthlessly discriminate against the children of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded and sustained Harvard.
But will they still admit unqualified students, anyway, for the sake of affirmative action?
Like foolish little children, falling for anything, changing their minds, .......what fools.
... and even more obvious after the DEI admits graduate and have any kind of interaction with the public.
They will simply give all non-whites a high score as a bias.
What about administrators?...............
These DEI jokes just write themselves.....LMAO.
DEIs don’t donate.
All those employees thought that Woke Culture had brought their careers to a sudden end.
At least one law school has ended LSAT scores for admission.
Three weeks ago, the Washington state Supreme Court decided that passing the state Bar Exam is not required to become a lawyer.
That is the same state Supreme Court that decided a Capital Gains tax on wealthy people does not violate the Constitutional prohibition against Income Tax.
Now if they can stop Woke Professors from giving all A’s and restore the curve we will rise to the same level of standards met by community colleges 50 years ago.
It is more likely a distraction to cover the fact the DEI train is picking up speed.
It will take vigorous action to root out evil, not a carefully crafted PR statement that a gullible press has been given and instructed to publish.
Yes, but they’ll probably put their thumb on the scales that measure the scores.
In an environment where there is already rampant grade inflation, even these idiots would require a curve skewed heavily to the first quartile.
There are plenty of “Didn’t Earn It’s” running around now practicing medicine and law.
it’s just racis’.
School’s rep was tanking.
Requirements from Harvard College:
“How much money do your parents have?”
Wut, their application numbers are down so they had to take this measure to appear to be a serious center of learning again instead of a hate factory?
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