Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year

Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by jerf on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:09AM (#23538715)

Sarcastically phrased, but it's the real answer. The colleges need to shed objective measures so they can continue their social programs unimpeded by any objective standards that might reveal their increasingly obvious biases.

If you want to get into Harvard, I recommend striving to demonstrate greater fealty to the hardest of hard left-wing ideals than your fellow applicants, as that will become the real criterion for admission as fast as they feel like they can make it.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by mauflows on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:36AM (#23539598)

Couldn't diversity be considered an objectively good thing to strive to have?

Anecdotally, I went to a technical school but some of my biggest shifts in perspective came from interacting with liberal arts and minority students.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by gizmo686 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:43AM (#23539678)

Yes. The legal justification for affirmative action getting an exception to anti-discrimination laws is that a diverse student body improves the quality of eduaction for all students; so there is a compelling interest to discriminate.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:11PM (#23541494)

It certainly doesn't improve the quality of education of the students who were rejected in favor of someone with a different color skin.

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