University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

Re:University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT by michaelmrose on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:27PM (#23273830)

To play devils advocate its not free and by default the cost accrues to the more successful students who may not have the financial resources to pay the additional funds and may opt not to attend despite being quite qualified. In some cases you may be trading more qualified graduates for less.

For some the truth may be that their lack of success may be external issues that can't be resolved by an additional investment of staff resources or just unsuitability for the program that can't be resolved other than by picking a more suitable major.

There is of course in the context of US education which wastes massive amounts of money so the actual answer is to stop wasting money on sports and invest that money in students but in all cases resources remain finite and some failure rate is inevitable.

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Re:University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT by mnky9800n on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:43AM (#23281572)

In the context of the US, the lack of proper financial support coupled with the lack of a proper vocational education system means that a lot of people go to college when they will not succeed.

In the case of struggling students. I think it's hard to dismiss a person because they struggle in a single course. I failed calculus 2 and now I'm about to finish a PhD doing statistics and machine learning. Should I have been "let go" so to speak upon that failure?

Failures matter when they are cumulative not singular. This is why early warning systems in education fail so much. They rarely have enough information to provide a warning that is actually early.

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Re:University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT by michaelmrose on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:47AM (#23281595)

Good point

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