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

Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by yorwba on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:21PM (#23542353)

The social status is of course different due to the lack of recognition for the "high school drop out", but the years of education received are similar.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by watwut on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:26PM (#23543041)

The type of education is however completely different. Years of education is meaningless metric in this context.

In one case you are learned woodworker (say) and in another ... nothing.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by yorwba on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:41PM (#23545195)

The ten years of schooling are in both cases general education, so they should be pretty comparable. Woodworking is something the German would learn during their apprenticeship and the American on the job (presumably).

How do companies who need skilled woodworkers in the US decide whom to hire? I'd guess they look for previous work experience. It's not clear to me whether an American who spent three years as an unskilled woodworker is any worse off in terms of job prospects than a German who spent three years as a woodworking apprentice.

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