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No. The point about replacing a test with more subjective criteria is completely invalidated when, instead, multiple tests are replaced with a single test. EDI
by brlewis 7y ago
No. The point about replacing a test with more subjective criteria is completely invalidated when, instead, multiple tests are replaced with a single test.
EDIT: Instead of completely invalidated, I should say irrelevant to MIT's change. In another context it could be an important point.
- strbean 7y agoI think the top level comment is based on the assumption that a greater quantity of objective data will lead to a greater weighting of objective data, and a lower quantity will lead to a lower weighting, leading to a greater weighting of subjective measures.
- jrumbut 7y agoLikewise, there are many skills you can't demonstrate on the SAT such as Spanish language proficiency. For whatever reason I took the French subject test but no AP test, perhaps there are other schools that do this. The math score might say a little about the other sciences, but the blmultilingual students are going to be disadvantaged by this it seems to me.
- benchaney 7y agoThis is completely incorrect. The SAT is not changing to incorporate the skills that would have previously measured by the subject test. As a result we are simply going to have fewer objective metrics.
- brlewis 7y agoWhen I say "replacing" I mean in terms of the weight they carry in admissions.