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While the article claims grades are less predictive than test scores, UTs policy is actually intended to have a similar locally-normalized effect, leveraging th
by ckemere 3y ago
While the article claims grades are less predictive than test scores, UTs policy is actually intended to have a similar locally-normalized effect, leveraging the wide variability of high school quality in TX…
- jobs_throwaway 3y agolike many things, there are some pretty significant unintended consequences though. In my district in Texas, parents would send their kids to the worst high school in the district because it was dramatically easier to be top 4% and get auto-admit to UT that way
- petsfed 3y agoGranted UT Austin is really well ranked, that seems like a terrible move for the kids. Like, great, you got in to this really well regarded school, but your preparation to get there may well be considerably worse than nothing at all.
- hindsightbias 3y agoAt the other end, the last time I attended a graduation at Highland Park TX, 4% was about the number of National Merit Scholars in the class. They typically go out-of-state, but the competition for the next 4% is insane.
- spoonjim 3y agoGoodhart’s lawing the Asian nerds into a high school with cholos and gangbangers
- red-iron-pine 3y agothere ought to be a sitcom about this
- SamBam 3y agoDartmouth wants to both achieve SES diversity and gets kids who are likely to succeed. If selecting the top of each class in the state gives them the diversity but doesn't give them the success rates, it's a less effective strategy. Their data seems to say that accepting medium-high SAT scores from poorer kids gets them both the diversity and the higher predicted success rates.