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Agree completely. SAT isn't perfect or perfectly objective. No test is. As long as a test controls admission to a highly desirable school, there will be exorbit
by NeverFade 7y ago
Agree completely. SAT isn't perfect or perfectly objective. No test is. As long as a test controls admission to a highly desirable school, there will be exorbitantly expensive courses for it.
However, it is a far more objective test than the rest of the admission packet, and it's being dropped with no alternative.
This will make admissions less fair, precisely because SAT is still a test that you can ace with discipline and hard work without much monetary investment, and it will be replaced by other criteria that actually requires more capital.
- dwaltrip 7y agoTo clarify, this announcement is only about the SAT subject tests.
- MiroF 7y agoAgreed. In my opinion, the best way to make admissions more fair is not to eliminate the SAT but to eliminate score choice.
- pge 7y agoAnd eliminate legacy preference and ability for sports coaches to influence admissions.
- WalterBright 7y agoI was rejected by MIT even though my father attended. I don't think MIT does legacy admissions, or sports admissions.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agolegacy preference just gives you a +1, not guaranteed.
- WalterBright 7y agoI applied to 10 ivy league universities, and was accepted by 3. It's reasonable to suppose that if MIT gave a +1 for legacy admits, I would have gotten the nod.
- MiroF 7y agothat is not a reasonable assumption at all - it's a dice roll regardless. admission at one good school doesn't guarantee admission at another, even if you have legacy. (and is also highly dependent on which Ivies we're talking about - not all Ivies are HYP, which are more on par with MIT)
- WalterBright 7y ago> that is not a reasonable assumption at all - it's a dice roll regardless. admission at one good school doesn't guarantee admission at another Saying "reasonable assumption" is not at all saying "guaranteed". Please stick to discussing ideas and not deliberately misinterpreting plain language.
- pge 7y agoDidn’t mean that comment to be about MIT (who may not do legacy preference and certainly isnt lowering academic standards to win ncaa championships). But those are both factors at other top schools including the Ivies and Stanford
- commandlinefan 7y ago> SAT isn't perfect or perfectly objective But it is the closest thing anybody's ever come up with.