To start with, while entertaining, you are really not the brightest lamp out here. Have you noticed that a significant percentage of posters are neither American citizens nor even residents? Furthermore, you don't know whether someone writes well or just hits copy/paste or even just paraphrases others' content. Finally, I would say that you are probably right in guessing that the average Joe in the US is less educated, less articulate, and less intelligent than the average ET crowd. What you conveniently omit, however, is that the average guy on this site is dumb as shit.
One of the worst moves in recent times in the US. Disgusting, despicable and hugely unfair. Support the poor and disenfranchised where they need help, at the root. Don't hurt and disadvantage the truly hard working and/or brightest. No matter the socioeconomic surroundings, achieving a top score in any standardized test is testimony to hard work and effort and/or a very bright mind. The biggest problem I see in America is not liberals and left leaning individuals. It is left extremist politicians and those with vested interest who deceive the rest with lies and misleading rethoric. Left leaning individuals cannot be this stupid in believing that the most recently suggested changes to immigration policies are not beneficial to society overall. And equally here, nobody can be this dump in believing that affirmative action and now this disgusting change to a standardized SAT test is good to anyone. Great to know that future kids in top schools will be slowed down by a few dummies who slipped through the cracks due to some rogue college admission test administrator. Worse yet, many colleges' admissions officer are some of most extremist socialists with a stubborn belief in equality of outcome. University in US is already an unattractive proposition for anyone with an IQ above cow blower, but this makes it virtually untenable for anyone with a believe in moral and ethical values.
Or they rely on hard facts and wanted to have a way to quantify a student's scores impact from lack of opportunity.
I show you why your suggestion is wrong. Did they equally take into account that certain cultural groups are harder working than others? On average you can take all the money away from Asian families and make every black family multi millionaires. The outcome will be precisely the same. It might possibly be even a larger gap. Equally, in basket ball, scientific fact is that blacks, DNA wise, have a higher chance to excel in athletics and professional sports than caucasians. Should we now also admit more whites to the NBA and not strive to see the absolutely best players and best game? What this study by the SAT test body ignores is that a high correlation between high test scores and societal success is a result of spurrious correlation. The causal relationship is that humans who strive hard at something will have success, evidenced in material wealth and academic success. Even when gangbangers roam my neighborhood I will still grab my textbook and study in the local public library. Even when my father left my mom or even if I was molested by an uncle will I still study hard to get the life I always wanted and escape and leave behind the life I despised. Nobody keeps a black child at home without textbook. And yes, caring parents will benefit children but those cared for children should not be penalized based on other parents' neglect. The aim here is crystal clear: a socialist fabric where equal outcome for all is the end goal.
It is already virtually impossible for a middle class white man to get any kind of financial aid unless he is top 10% in his class. Ten years ago,I had a 2270 sat,3.5 gpa and got accepted into a top 50 liberal arts school-no aid, $50000 a year. A black friend of mine with a sat score a full 1000 points lower,gpa nearly a point lower,was accepted into the same school, full scholarship. It was at that point I realized I had no respect for america's education system- take what you can from it and give as little back as possible-starve the beast. Or you could break bread, crumb by crumb into the leviathan's den.
"Dad, I need 50k a year to study Liberal Arts" Dad tries to hang himself... Might come to my house one day
I didn't attend,cost is ridiculous. Better to go to community college for 2 years, transfer to a local public university for 2 and the degree.