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Do you have a source on that 20% stat? The only information I can find about it is this 02 article from the Crimson, which states that they receive several hund
by pitdesi 15y ago
Do you have a source on that 20% stat?
The only information I can find about it is this 02 article from the Crimson, which states that they receive several hundred APPLICATIONS that are flagged with extra time. Considering they have 35k applications and accept ~2k students, I find it really hard to believe that 20% of their admitted students got extra time.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/7/19/sat-changes-will-not-affect-harvard/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/7/19/sat-changes-will...
That being said, your point that rich kids are more likely to get extra time is certainly true:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1787712&page=1&singlePage=true http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1787712&page=1&...
- cma 15y agoCan't find the source where I originally read this. But, from that ABC article you linked: "The natural proportion of learning disabilities should be somewhere around 2 percent, the College Board said, but at some elite schools, up to 46 percent of students receive special accommodations to take the tests, including extra time." emphasis added
- pitdesi 15y agoelite schools refers to high schools though, not colleges