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 jedberg on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:35PM (#39265922)

Of course you can argue that. There is nothing that is perfectly fair. More fair would be to individually interview every college candidate with questions custom tailored their life experience via video chat where their face and voice is obscured as well as any accent and speech affectation they might have.

But that certainly isn't scalable. I'd argue the SAT is one of the most fair things we have at scale.

It's true that the SAT used to be biased (for example the word problems would use the word regatta which a wealthy east coast teen would know but a poor west coast teen would not) but from what I've seen they've done a good job removing that bias (as shown by this paper).

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Re:SAT (and ACT) scores are highly predictive of academic ac... by gnicholas on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:45PM (#39266076)

It would actually be really interesting if schools started using an AI-based live interview, where the interviewer (AI) was provided with their application file.

Admissions officers could then watch the recording, or rely on the automated scoring that the AI platform spits out.

Not everyone performs well on interviews, and I imagine performance would vary even more on interviews where you know your "interviewer" is an AI. But it could be really interesting, and a way to achieve the type of personalization and scale that you allude to.

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