Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by MichaelDickens on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:29PM (#36522702)

So you're saying the SAT gives a bigger advantage to people with resources to prepare, compared to a GPA which is the result of many assignments and tests across four years? That does not sound remotely plausible to me.

SAT + grades is a stronger predictor of college performance than grades alone. AFAIK this is a pretty uncontroversial finding. For a review article, see Frey (2019), "What We Know, Are Still Getting Wrong, and Have Yet to Learn about the Relationships among the SAT, Intelligence and Achievement."

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:45PM (#36523939)

Are you discounting that the factors that go I to the GPA are wildly different between schools?

I think the guy that got a 2.9 in a school that was seriously focused on education is going to be better prepared for the 4.1 from a peace and love participation trophy school.

Are you missing “standardized” portion?

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