Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by BeFlatXIII on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:43PM (#27937981)

Lottery systems with an initial cutoff make sense if you have a large surplus of applicants who surpass your lower quality threshold. Rather than make asinine minuscule decisions over who exactly the top 1,526 out of 10,000 are, cull the 7,234 that don’t make the cut and randomly select from the survivors.

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by akomtu on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:11AM (#27938332)

I'd rather prefer my surgeon, should I ever need one, be one of those "asinine miniscule" top 1526 applicants selected based on pure merit.

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Re:Why is the university of California dropping the SAT? by BeFlatXIII on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:46PM (#27944336)

The entire point is that you set the initial cutoff such that the differences in “pure merit” between your threshold and the lowest candidate if you went anal-retentive on ranking do not translate into meaningfully different outcomes.

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