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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by mgh2 on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:04PM (#30833550)
Maybe there was another variable at play: language. SATs are in English.

If English is not a student's primary language and fluency improves as they advance academically, up to a plateau with age.

Not sure if this was properly controlled in SAT studies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11007/

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by hn_user82179 on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#30834075)
Glad you mentioned this. I went to a strong wealthy public high school with a high asian population (~50%?). When I was there, a lot of my friends were 2nd generation immigrants and their parents still spoke their native language at home. Their kids (my friends) were perfectly fluent/native in English but didn't do as well in the "edge vocabulary" parts of the SAT and I always figured that was why (in comparison to me and my english-at-home parents).
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