Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions...
by barry-cotter on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:16AM
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It’s been done.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691141602/no...
Review of above book
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2010/07/12/how_diversity_pu...
Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions...
by WalterBright on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @04:42AM
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If I was in the admissions dept, I'd look favorably on an applicant who worked at a job.
I had a paper route, which was run as an independent business. I had a territory, I signed up people in it to subscribe, I delivered the papers, I collected the money, I paid for the newspapers the newspaper company dropped off. How much money I made was entirely up to how I operated. If I was sick or out of town, I had to find someone to cover for me.
> Standardized testing was pretty much the only reason I and many other working class folks I know could get into good schools -- I was never going to do a million side activities, and my summers were spent working, not building my academic resume.
– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30833870
> I grew up as a low-income minority in a single-parent household and I ended up getting into good schools pretty much only due to my high test scores, which has been a life changer. Other than test scores, I couldn't afford to do any fancy extra-curriculars.
– https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30835611
Of course this is (somewhat) testable. I could ask different collage admission boards to summarize anonymized admission records of students where extra-curricular actives was weighted favorably for admission. And then group these activities based on how accessible they are to various wealth classes before counting them up. I don’t know if that has been done, and I’m not in a position to do it my self... so the best I can do is make a bet.