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I don’t think so. I think it signals a secret level of expectations and information asymmetry as the average sat score is still available to admissions people.
by prepend 5y ago
I don’t think so. I think it signals a secret level of expectations and information asymmetry as the average sat score is still available to admissions people.
It will be interesting if this leads to higher or lower mean and median scores. I expect that scores will go up as the assumption by applicants is that only super high scores will result in admission.
Part of their “holistic” process includes SAT so the score does matter. I consider “holistic” BS marketing speak as of course everything in the admin packet is used and there’s never been a situation in my lifetime that a specific score meant automatic admission.
- olsonjeffery 5y agoThere’s actually another, simpler explanation: they’re doing exactly what they’re saying. Not releasing SAT scores of admitted students might mean that their experiments with “holistic” admission results in lower average SATs. Hence their de-emphasis of test scores.
- prepend 5y agoPerhaps, but that seems stupid as test scores are very useful for determining if someone will successfully complete college, and many other factors. If their goal is to de-emphasize SAT scores then they should be cool with releasing SAT scores to emphasize that their de-emphasis approach has changed the patterns in SAT.