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 troupe on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:35PM (#39263918)

A. People who attend poor high school and get a 29 on his ACT are admitted over students to went to a college prep private school and got a 32.

B. People who are of a certain race that get a 29 on their ACT are admitted over people of another race that get a 32.

It sounds like Dartmouth is doing A. The recent court cases had to do with schools that were doing B. If a college requires SAT/ACT tests and continues doing B, then it is pretty easy to see they are doing so based on objective data.

I believe those court cases are one of the reasons schools are moving to test optional--not because the SAT/ACT isn't useful to predict success at college, but because they see it as a liability in their acceptance process.

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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by genman on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:18PM (#39266535)

They still might do B but use proxies to determine probable race. It can be determined based on scales they apply to different high schools. Of course the underlining issue is US socioeconomic fabric that is the root cause of this issue.

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