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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by cuteboy19 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @02:47PM (#35033204)
Yes, it's actually much harder. But the final results are group by category order by rank. There is negative marking to discourage guessing, so the cutoff for certain categories can even be 0 or even negative
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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by harvey9 on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:12PM (#35048476)
So you could make the cut (be considered a successful exam taker) with a zero score just because a large proportion of your peers got negative scores?

This seems just as unhelpful for deciding who to hire or who to allow onto a higher course of study as the campaigns we have seen on some USA university campuses to give all students an automatic A grade.

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Re:Dropping the Sat Requirement Is a Luxury Belief by cuteboy19 on Monday March 06, 2023 @08:39PM (#35050408)
That is the cost of equity.

Note that the system also has many holes, so the categorization isn't perfect. Its possible for a large number of students to belong to the categories only on paper. So you don't even get equity in the end.

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