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Hell no. Optimizing solely for grades and test scores will get you rote-memorizing robots with zero personal skills and minimal potential. A completely merit-b
by cycrutchfield 8y ago
Hell no. Optimizing solely for grades and test scores will get you rote-memorizing robots with zero personal skills and minimal potential.
A completely merit-based, objective admissions system simply does not exist.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoYou are making a reasonable, but baseless claim. You are saying that 4.0 GPA students with 1600 SAT scores have zero personal skills, are robots, and have minimal potential. We know though, that SAT is a one of the best available predictors of outcome.
- cycrutchfield 8y agoI am saying that grades and SATs are just two factors in predicting potential. Saying that we should only use those two factors when we have a wealth of other factors to complement them is sheer naivety.
- perl4ever 8y agoLumping test scores and grades together seems to obscure that one was intended to fix issues with the other. I think that a purpose of the SAT was to combat the undesirable effects of judging people solely on grades. It's meant to be a measure of aptitude, exactly because your grades can reflect how good your school was, how much you memorized, your economic/social class, grade inflation, and so on. People who do well on the SAT (or at least who did on the old SAT back in the early 90s and before) did not necessarily study at all for it.