SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic achievement at Dartmouth [pdf]

Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by dghlsakjg on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:05PM (#39263536)

Dartmouth in 1950 was an all mens college that enrolled less than 2,500. Women weren't allowed until the 1970s.

Dartmouth today has 6,700 students of all races, genders, religions.

Enrollment numbers can and do change, but it is much harder and slower to change something that is physically and resource constrained than it is to change policy.

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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by Geisterde on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:39PM (#39263978)

I thought we could fix the world by writing things on offical looking paper though, you are saying we cant just vote that everyone gets a free Lamborghini?

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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by ghaff on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:15PM (#39263653)

There's long been this mythos around Dartmouth in the vein of Daniel Webster's "It's a small college but there are those of us who love it" when in fact it's a research university even if it at least clings to the idea that it's a rural, athletically-oriented New England liberal arts college.

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