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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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