College Admissions in a Covid Year: SATs Are Out, Personal Stories Are In. The pandemic has dramatically changed what admissions officers are looking for

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 17, 2020 | Douglas Belkin

[karpov]

The SAT and ACT, in conjunction with high school grades, have been shown to predict (imperfectly) college grades. A college admssions officer's rating of someone's "personal story", which they may not even have written, and which cannot be verified, is unlikely to be predictive of anything.

Reason #101 to end government funding of "higher" education.

[EEGator]

Making Whitey pay again.

[allendale]

Colleges are looking for paying customers. Capacity for scholarship and learning is optional.

[cuban leaf]

Many people were predicting, way before the cv19 hoax, the next economic bubble to burst would be the student loan bubble, followed by the collapse of a lot of colleges and universities.

How do they not come out of this nonsense eviscerated?

[karpov]

full article

[ConservativeMind]

Let’s go subjective for everyone!

“This social justice paper is so much better than that paper on aspects of the Constitution. Let’s admit the first one.”

[ClearCase_guy]

Here’s my essay:

“I am the biggest victim ever. If you don’t believe me, you are a racist. Please let me know what day I can move in to the dorms.”

[a fool in paradise]

This way they can change demographics without having to bias test score values

[a fool in paradise]

With billions in endowments I don’t see universities going bankrupt.

[EEGator]

I identify as a non-binary, one eyed, questioning, midget, Black lizard person.

[clintonh8r]

Achievements and qualifications are out, narratives and feelings are in.

[Dilbert San Diego]

How many universities have billions in endowments?

We have all heard how Harvard and some others have huge endowments, but how many have enough in endowments, to enable them to survive big downturns in enrollment? That’s a key question.

[Buckeye McFrog]

so....biggest sob story wins

[Yo-Yo]

But criticism that scores largely track household income, combined with pandemic-related logistical challenges, have prompted about 400 schools to pay less or no attention to test scores this year, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an organization critical of the exams.

Uh, no. Criticism of the tests had zero to do with the decision by higher education schools to drop the standarized test requirements.

The reason the requirement was temporarily suspended is because schools closed last spring and went virtual, and there were no way to administer the tests.

There is no reliance on the test scores because THERE ARE NO SCORES. Instead, schools are weighing actual high school grades more heavily than in the past.

[FewsOrange]

Never seen that site before, looks useful

[Buckeye McFrog]

How do they not come out of this nonsense eviscerated?

Foreign Student Visas. It's a virtual money-minting operation. They are pretty much selling access to the US plus work permits to all comers.

[cuban leaf]

With billions in endowments I don’t see universities going bankrupt.

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Well, not all of them. A beautiful one in a town near my town went under two years ago.

Thing is, I’m not talking about Yale. I’m talking about all those small universities and colleges that are not so well protected.

[cuban leaf]

My wife worked for the international student office at a local Christian university. She got to know a lot of kids from Argentina.

They pay significantly lower tuition than US citizens. :(

[redshawk]

Yeah but are you transgender? Do you have two Daddy’s?

[CaptainK]

It will be easier for rich parents to find an excellent writer to ghost write a statement paper than finding a top SAT scorer who proctors their fake special needs child.

If they can provide photos, real or fake, of their child at a BLM march/riot the Ivy doors will fly open.