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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by freewilly1040 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:05AM (#29601836)
Critiques of the bias of testing need to come with a defense of what replaces them. Can extra curriculars be gamed? Of course. What makes a good essay? That would depend on the eye of the evaluator.

The dismay here is not due to a believe that testing correctly plucks the best minuscule number of deserving applicants that get in. It’s that everything else that is used is worse.

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by hiptobecubic on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:57AM (#29606073)
You don't need to offer an improvement to the SAT to complain about its obvious faults.
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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by kolbe on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:04PM (#29608483)
Unless the complaints result in the elimination of the SAT without a good replacement. Which is exactly what is happening.

I find it to be extremely destructive to spend all your time complaining about problems, and none finding solutions. That’s more or less what Maxism is: a long list of faults with capitalism and a half-baked untested idea of what could maybe be a solution. And we’ve seen the damage that ideology has done.

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