Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Dec 16, 2021.

  1. ipatent

    ipatent

    I never said they were.
     
    #21     Dec 30, 2021
  2. ipatent

    ipatent

    Cal Berkeley is about 40% Asian, and the world hasn't ended.
     
    #22     Dec 30, 2021
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    End result of funding schools via property taxes. Should've just closed the gap in schooling across all social strata to avoid fixing it later
     
    #23     Dec 30, 2021
  4. Why so ass puckered over SATs... it is just a standardized test.

    Harvard still looks at GPA and quality of courses taken as well as recomendations and personal essays.. You are not getting into Harvard unless you are getting As in AP, IB or Honors Classes....

    Only a safety school attendee would think getting rid of SAT dumbs down Americans...
     
    #24     Dec 30, 2021
  5. ipatent

    ipatent

    That's the way admissions should be, but students having straight A's in AP courses are a dime a dozen to Ivy League admission offices. The tests are needed to set a few apart, and identify students from small town America who have potential that their local school system couldn't being out.

    The tests are the friend of the little guy with aptitude. Take them away, and the door is wide open for children of alums, jocks, affirmative action, children of wealthy donors, etc.
     
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    #25     Dec 30, 2021
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  6. If they used just grades and Act/Sat test scores the Ivy League would be comprised of mostly Asian, Indian and Jewish/Eastern European immigrants.
     
    #26     Dec 30, 2021
  7. ipatent

    ipatent

    Probably about 50%. Maybe a few points higher.
     
    #27     Dec 30, 2021
  8. J.D. Vance got in on a Hillbilly scholarship, not on his SAT scores.
     
    #28     Dec 30, 2021
  9. Mercor

    Mercor

    Harvard is an international school
    Harvard suggests that international students make up about 23.0% of the student body.
    Asia population is equivalent to 59.76% of the total world population
     
    #29     Dec 30, 2021
  10. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Yeah, should be 60 % Asian:rolleyes:

    With blacks already only 6% they aren't getting cut any further so more Asians will come at the expense of whites.Good luck,white folks aren't going for that.
     
    #30     Dec 30, 2021