Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by __MatrixMan__ on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:38PM (#30833219)

I used to take the ACT for people, they'd pay me in beer (which I wasn't old enough to buy for myself). You'd get ID'd at the entrance, but nobody kept track of whether the name on your test was the name on your ID, so you'd just take each other's tests.

It might be harder now, I don't know.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by bena on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:02PM (#30833535)

But they also wouldn't be old enough to buy you beer.

Unless you are suggesting adults would buy you beer for you to take the ACT on behalf of a minor they knew. Which seems odd.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by tiahura on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:10PM (#30833625)

He’s old. You used to be able to buy beer at 18.

This country used to be a lot less uptight.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by __MatrixMan__ on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:38PM (#30835928)

This was in 2004. I was 17, they were in their mid 20's.

I know that one was training to be a dental hygienist, or at least wanted to be training for that. The other few didn't share as much, but they all knew each other so maybe it was the same thing?

I highly doubt I've harmed anyone by enabling their hygienist to get where she was without knowing the formula for the volume of a cone. As far as I'm concerned the gumption necessary to hack your way in is worth just as much as the gumption needed to pass authentically.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by bena on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:19PM (#30834447)

And 18 year olds aren't taking the ACT. Or if they are, there are other reasons why they aren't getting into certain schools and they aren't as concerned with getting good ACT scores.

Not to mention, the drinking age being 18 was for a window of about 14 years in the 70s and 80s. (Unless he's from Louisiana)

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by 8note on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:52PM (#30834124)

Non-adults are capable of getting alcohol, without buying directly from a store.

Typically they know somebody who knows an adult that will to the transaction with the store and provide the id.

Otherwise, some stores accept good fake ids, or squint to believe that the person buying actually matches the picture on the card

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by bena on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:11PM (#30834364)

In which case, he would be able to get beer in the same manner.

The issue is that the people he claims are getting him alcohol would be in the same situation as him.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by __MatrixMan__ on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:34PM (#30835894)

No this was my older co-workers. My academics were fresh because I was still in high school, theirs was rusty because they had graduated several years prior without bothering to take the ACT.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by rsync on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:46PM (#30834054)

My instant moral judgement on your having taken tests for others dissipated fully upon learning that they paid you in beer.

I will smile all day thinking about this.

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