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Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by jessaustin on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:02PM (#17879051)
The SAT, which is the more relevant test for this discussion, was intentionally made easier years ago, so that it would be better suited to measuring the vast majority of USA college applicants. That made it less suited to Harvard's needs, but not as much as one might think. Plenty of Harvard students had less than the maximum SAT scores. Some might prefer that admission be based solely on test scores, but that is not Harvard's preference.
Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by SenseiMaster on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:18PM (#17880869)
Or it works in Harvard's preference by potentially hiding the academic disparities of the different ethnic groups studying at Harvard.

If everyone's score is truncated at 800 on a test out of 1200, then you can't tell the difference between a group that averages 800 vs one that averages 1100

Re:Asian-American Students Suing Harvard Over Admissions Win... by univalent on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:05PM (#17879096)
So maybe have 2 tests. A second one that is harder and spreads students out more. I was just questioning the value of a test that 'normalizes' student scores having no distribution at the top end.