Recent discussions on the removal of SAT/ACT requirements for college admissions have sparked debates on the impact of such decisions. Critics argue that eliminating these tests may lead to admitting less qualified but wealthier or politically favored applicants, potentially disadvantaging downwardly mobile whites, Asian Americans, and Jews. Contrary to popular belief, SATs have shown low predictive power for GPAs due to range restriction. However, data indicates falling academic standards in American high schools, with concerns that eliminating SATs could result in lower-achieving pupils suffering the most. Despite rising graduation rates and improved course credits, declining SAT scores raise questions about educational quality and academic success.
Question: What happened after the top-ranked high school in the country removed its admissions test in order to increase the percentage of blacks and Hispanics in its student body? Answer: Pretty much what you'd expect. https://t.co/XgTyCq37yH
For the sake of racial equity: We dumbed down SATs We admitted less qualified BIPOCs into colleges, grad schools and "gifted" programs We inflated grading We made SATs optional We eliminated gifted programs We made it easier to pass board exams https://t.co/eFsfvHW3OZ
The left: We must eliminate the SAT because it only predicts the socioeconomic status of your parents. Study after study: Nope. https://t.co/pzPCaUDmbT
In American high schools, graduation rates are up but standards are down. Lowering the academic bar, it is thought, can help narrow achievement gaps. Yet it may have the opposite effect https://t.co/Rafv5BcHlv 👇
Chronicles of total American supremacy: * US 4th year computer science students performed better than peers in China, Russia, India by 0.75 S.D. * In fact, non-elite US students performed slightly better than CN/IN/RU at "elite" institutions. * India actually overrated here as… https://t.co/kF90TuXPNE
Between 2007 and 2020 the average graduation rate at public high schools in America leapt from 74% to 87%. During this period pupils notched up gains in course credits and grade-point averages. - Yet SAT scores fell. - Results from the latest PISA international test of…
An analysis by The Economist suggests that schools are lowering academic standards to help more students graduate. The trend may hurt low-performing pupils the most https://t.co/sjODGC27Wd 👇
An analysis by The Economist suggests that schools are lowering academic standards to help more pupils graduate. But policies that lower the bar may harm the very students they are meant to help https://t.co/NmrDkCaOxy https://t.co/vVWpDDnVIz
New data show falling standards in American high schools. Low-achieving pupils may suffer the most https://t.co/IR1Ek4XB2T 👇
The results are out: getting rid of the SATs is a disaster. Kids admitted without the SAT perform FAR worse in college even with massive grade inflation and BS majors being created to create the illusion of academic success for them. It turns out that the average 300 point SAT…
SATs have surprisingly low predictive power for GPAs, but that usually gets chalked up to range restriction (the highest-SAT students have the worst HS GPAs and vice-versa). Good natural experiment demonstrating that this is true: https://t.co/uhiCm8fpTA
The dropping of the SAT/ACT was always a way for selective schools to admit dumber but much wealthier or politically favored applicants over smarter, more able, ones who happened to be downwardly mobile whites, Asian Americans and Jews despised by DEI cultists https://t.co/mlLy3jArSY