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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by strbean on Friday March 20, 2020 @04:54PM (#22641561)
I think the top level comment is based on the assumption that a greater quantity of objective data will lead to a greater weighting of objective data, and a lower quantity will lead to a lower weighting, leading to a greater weighting of subjective measures.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by jrumbut on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:22PM (#22641791)
Likewise, there are many skills you can't demonstrate on the SAT such as Spanish language proficiency. For whatever reason I took the French subject test but no AP test, perhaps there are other schools that do this.

The math score might say a little about the other sciences, but the blmultilingual students are going to be disadvantaged by this it seems to me.

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