Posted on 05/11/2005 4:38:02 PM PDT by emeryboard
Holy Cross College is dropping the SAT as an admissions requirement, apparently in the name of boosting ethnic diversity. I disagree with this decision. Not only is it a capitulation to the notion that blacks and Hispanics are somehow unable to get high SAT scores (which is politically correct bigotry, in my book), it also plays into the conspiracy theory that the test is somehow inherently biased against blacks and Hispanics. As Harvard professors Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom have pointed out, Asians tend to do better than whites on the SAT; if the creators of the test were deliberately trying to make the test biased, why would they make it biased in favor of Asians?
Dropping the SAT is an easy way out, an example of what President Bush once called "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
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What's really bad is that it destroys the educational opportunities of some of the best & brightest minority students. There just aren't that many black or Latino kids with 1600 SATs around. So, they get snatched up quick, but then the ultra-high level schools like Harvard or MIT admit quite a few more minority students whose scores & grades are somewhat below their normal standards, in the name of increasing 'diversity.' The students burn out because they are simply unable to compete with their peers -- whereas they would thrive at a second-tier school better suited to their academic level. And the domino effect goes on down through all the lower schools.
400 has always been the bottom for SATs.
"Not only is it a capitulation to the notion that blacks and Hispanics are somehow unable to get high SAT scores (which is politically correct bigotry, in my book), it also plays into the conspiracy theory that the test is somehow inherently biased against blacks and Hispanics."
Another example of being manipulated by negro an mexican leaders. Don't these leaders understand that their kids are going to have to compete after they get a job?
This is CRAP and the losers are the negro and mexican kids!
I believe Clarence Thomas is a graduate of Holy Cross College in Worcester Massachusetts. It is now so very expensive many kids cannot afford it. Throwing out the SAT
exam may allow them to get tuition from less qualified students that can afford the stiff tuition but could never have been admitted under the old admission SAT policy.
Absolutely. Great post.
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Current Communist Goals
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17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
You are probably exactly right. Another thing they do is just not admit students who have high financial need. Back in 1994, an admissions officer told me there were only 19 colleges left that had need-blind admissions AND were able to give the aid that was required. Of course his college was one of them, or he wouldn't have brought this up (Vassar). It's probably even fewer than that now.
The prep courses, which I took and have also tutored students in, are simply reviews of basic mathematics, sentence structure, and vocabulary. Also, a little bit of logic helps on the multiple-choice section. I fail to see how that undermines the SAT.
Reminds me of a story one of my law school profs told about when he was taking a law school exam. The fellow next to him kept going to the front of the room and getting another blue book. Blue book after blue book was being filled up and my prof was sitting there thinking this guy was a genius and he (my prof) was going to fail.
Turns out the guy had a vision problem and had to write twice as large as everyone else, using 2 lines, in order to see it.
Moral is - Write your own exam and don't worry about how much someone else is writing; they could be legally blind. :)
I am amazed at how little is being taught these days, and yet many parents sleep while the curriculum is dumbed down.
I know some do not believe they can homeschool, but many parents really can. I can, and I very glad that I do.
Well, we'll need an illiterate underclass when the illegals are all gone; ignorant public school graduates should fill that need just fine.
LOL! So they can vote dumbocrat!
Most of them are not voting now, see the 04 stats on the "Democratic advantage" 18-24 year olds - most didn't vote.
Shame to hear this from a historically good school. Seems to me they've had some diversity in the past - I believe this is Clarence Thomas's alma mater. It was also attended by Justice Scalia's son. (I saw Scalia at my sister's graduation - his son was in her class.)
I don't know what it is now, but after the "new, harder" (pre-essay) SATs were introduced in the 90s, you got 400 points for showing up and putting your name on the paper.
Then I'm going to send my cat too, but I'm taking my degrees off the wall. They won't mean anything and I don't want everyone to know how dumb I am.
Unfortunately, there seems to be precious few people possessing this chimerical "true education".
The ACT is a much better test anyway.
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