Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by colinmhayes on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:46PM (#30833305)

Anecdotal, but it seems universities have solved this by figuring out which schools have grade inflation. I went to a gifted school in Chicago that was quite competitive and did not have grade inflation. 20% of the school went to Northwestern every year because they'd accept every B student.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by michaelt on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:37PM (#30834646)

That method has its own problems, though.

For one thing, if a school has grade inflation so bad that even an A+ from that school isn't enough to get into Yale - is that a problem?

For another example, if adjustment for grade inflation means Yale will ask for an A+ from Martin Luther King High, Detroit while they'll accept a B from Phillips Academy, Andover - is that a problem?

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by colinmhayes on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:07PM (#30834965)

Well the thing is I went to an inner city public high school. It was much closer to "Martin Luther King High, Detroit" than it was to a prep school. Majority of students were below the poverty line, yet almost half were accepted to Northwestern every year, many with full rides.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by JJMcJ on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:59PM (#30834221)

I've met people from elite private day schools. Their education in a different world than 99.99% of public high schools, except maybe a few like Stuyvesant in NYC and Lowell in SF, or the fortunate few where 3/4 of the kids have parents who are doctors or college professors (why not both?).

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