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Not sure how I feel about this. Should a university be more interested in potential ability, or actual present ability? Should a university have accommodations
by psyc 5y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. Should a university be more interested in potential ability, or actual present ability? Should a university have accommodations for rehabilitating someone from a bad school system? I'm all for fixing that bad school system somehow, I just don't see that it's the university's responsibility to lower their standards or offer remedial courses. If the student couldn't achieve a good SAT score because of something lacking in their education, what is the university supposed to do to make up for whatever it is that's lacking? Just let them in and if they fail out then too bad?
- kstrauser 5y agoGood question, and I don’t know. As a thought experiment, what if their raw SAT score were replaced with, say, their standard deviations relative to their school or area’s scores? Then you could see that they had high scores compared to their peers, and presumably had the raw talent to succeed?
- commandlinefan 5y agoGoing through college admissions with my son right now, one thing they always ask about is "class rank" - that is, out of your graduating class, what percentile were your grades in? Seems like the same basic concept.