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

Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by crimsonalucard5 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:02AM (#23539935)

>The SAT has always generally been a test showing how well you prepared for the SAT. For top schools all viable candidates had very good scores so it wasn’t much use.

There are many people who have high GPA's but are not intelligent enough to do well on the SATs. Removing this bar will allow those people through.

Not necessarily a bad thing but a thing nonetheless.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by creatornator on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:00PM (#23540718)

The point is that the SATs don't measure intelligence. "not intelligent enough to do well on the SATs" is harsh. And if anything I think it would go the other way--it's common to get a subpar grade on the SAT even if you are smart and a high achiever.

And regarding removing the bar allowing more people through, that's not true either--it's not like colleges all of a sudden have more seats available. They'll still only admit the same number of students, and they will still select for the best students.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by crimsonalucard5 on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:53AM (#23574521)

>And regarding removing the bar allowing more people through, that's not true either--it's not like colleges all of a sudden have more seats available. They'll still only admit the same number of students, and they will still select for the best students.

But white people tend not do as well on the SATs, but they do fine with GPAs.

Now they can let more white people into the school and they don't have to explain the SAT discrepancies because they aren't measuring for that.

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