Posted on 05/03/2023 4:06:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The long era of the dominance of the SAT in college admissions is coming to an end.
The test is increasingly being shelved not because it failed but because it succeeded in all the wrong ways.
According to a survey from an anti-testing outfit, more than 80% of four-year colleges won’t require standardized tests for admissions this coming fall.
Many have made the tests optional, and some won’t consider them at all.
In a swath of academia, the pandemic expedient of dropping the tests has seamlessly transitioned to a permanent change.
If this isn’t a leap forward for fairness or rationality, it is another ringing victory for the equity of “diversity, equity and inclusion” fame.
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The deeper problem with the SAT, of course, is optics; it doesn’t produce the racial outcomes that the people who run institutions of higher education, especially elite ones, want. At the end of the day, the test that has been smeared over the years as a tool of white supremacy is a conveyor belt for Asian Americans into top colleges in numbers that college administrators find embarrassing and inconvenient. . . . This is where the SAT is unwelcome in another way. As an objective measure of preparedness with hard numbers attached, it provides incontrovertible evidence of the racial bias against Asian Americans in admissions. Who wants that? With a likely loss in the Supreme Court’s big affirmative-action case looming, colleges and universes are already finding a way to finagle out of the decision.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Is it anti-Asian bias to be concerned about Chinese infiltration?
So now classes will be filled with underachieving and undeserving youth who grew up in families that eschewed homework and study?
I guess so. Some of them will flunk out... but maybe not due to grade inflation.
This is gonna put many test preparation services and tutors out of business.
First offered in 1926 by the College Board, the SAT has faced controversy throughout nearly a century of testing.
So it lasted close to a century!
Is there anything stopping a prospective employer from requiring their job applicants to take the SAT as part of the job application process?
As Jordan Peterson and others have pointed out, in the past if one hired someone from a prestigious university, you could be pretty sure that they had been pre-screened for well-above-average intelligence in the admissions process - an Ivy League degree didn’t provide absolute certainty in that regard, but it was a pretty good starting point.
But if academia is going to abandon those standardized tests, then the prestige of those formerly top-notch schools is going to come into question, at least as regards the likely level of intelligence of their graduates. The way things go at most of those universities, once you’re admitted you almost have to make a deliberate effort to flunk out, especially if you gravitate to particular majors and you fit specific demographic criteria.
Aptitude tests for employment are generally not legal.
Aptitude tests for employment are generally not legal.
Merit (the basis of America’s success) is being replaced in our school systems with equity, which is a Marxist ideology:
“ As an objective measure of preparedness with hard numbers attached”
That’s the key.
Weird non-sequitur.
And these "yoots" will have "free" tuition paid for by the taxpaying families of students who did study and do their homework
but cannot get into college because of their "white privilege".
As Jordan Peterson and others have pointed out, in the past if one hired someone from a prestigious university, you could be pretty sure that they had been pre-screened for well-above-average intelligence in the admissions process. -
An Ivy League degree didn’t provide absolute certainty in that regard, but it was a pretty good starting point.
What,I found to be interesting was how those of us, who scored well on the SAT, got into a good college/university and were graduated from those colleges/universities, were hired because of those degrees/SAT’s, and basically the companies and/or military didn’t even ask to see our degrees in their hiring/enlistment practices.
Often, our siblings and first cousins with lower SATs didn’t get in the colleges//universities they wanted. So, later, while job hunting, they carried copies of their degrees as they were often asked to show them.
“ So now classes will be filled with underachieving and undeserving youth who grew up in families that eschewed homework and study?”
No.
That would be reflected if they only looked at GPA.
GPA can reflect socialization more than intelligence and ability.
SAT is pure intellectual ability.
its in the way of communi.........er i mean equity
MIT was no longer test optional this year. Purdue wants tests for next year. TN, GA, and FL still require them for state schools. Some colleges are test optional for admission but want test scores for scholarships.
The College Board has to much invested in this area to let this stand. Those prep courses and books aint gonna buy themselves.
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