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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by Spivak on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:48PM (#23543265)
Sure, but I don't have any prior belief that my classmates -- kids around my age in my area which was lower-middle to upper-middle class depending on the neighborhood at a middling school -- skewed more proficient in math than the general population.

Of course it's not representative but I find it hard to believe that some no name school happened to be where the math nerds all hung out.

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Re:Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions ... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:25PM (#23543628)
The population of students taking calculus in high school is already skewed more proficient than the general population just by that fact. (Obviously, the causality runs in the other direction, but the skew is there.)
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