Posted on 09/17/2020 6:44:03 AM PDT by karpov
Memo to high-school seniors applying to selective colleges: A high score on your SAT is out. A Covid-19 epiphany is in.
Hundreds of colleges dropped their mandate for a standardized test score this year as a result of the pandemic, but the replacement criterion at many schools may be just as daunting for would-be college freshmen: a new understanding of themselves and their place in the world as a result of the pandemic.
“This wasn’t something you could study for or plan for, but it offers a great opportunity for students to show us what they were able to do when they just had to figure out how to make it work. That’s a unique story,” says Catherine Davenport, dean of admissions at Dickinson College, which won’t include test scores in its admissions decisions for the first time this year.
Standardized college entrance exams like the SAT and ACT have been a fixture in the application process for most colleges for decades and a rite of passage for generations of college-bound students. But criticism that scores largely track household income, combined with pandemic-related logistical challenges, have prompted about 400 schools to pay less or no attention to test scores this year, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, an organization critical of the exams. Now, more than 60% of four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. don’t require test scores.
Many students welcome the change, but the absence of a standardized score leaves a gap in the information most schools use to judge applicants. Two additional holes are left by the cancellation of most extracurricular activities and the inability of students in most cases to demonstrate interest in schools by attending college fairs or visiting schools.
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Reason #101 to end government funding of "higher" education.
Making Whitey pay again.
Colleges are looking for paying customers. Capacity for scholarship and learning is optional.
Many people were predicting, way before the cv19 hoax, the next economic bubble to burst would be the student loan bubble, followed by the collapse of a lot of colleges and universities.
How do they not come out of this nonsense eviscerated?
Let’s go subjective for everyone!
“This social justice paper is so much better than that paper on aspects of the Constitution. Let’s admit the first one.”
Here’s my essay:
“I am the biggest victim ever. If you don’t believe me, you are a racist. Please let me know what day I can move in to the dorms.”
This way they can change demographics without having to bias test score values
With billions in endowments I don’t see universities going bankrupt.
I identify as a non-binary, one eyed, questioning, midget, Black lizard person.
Achievements and qualifications are out, narratives and feelings are in.
How many universities have billions in endowments?
We have all heard how Harvard and some others have huge endowments, but how many have enough in endowments, to enable them to survive big downturns in enrollment? That’s a key question.
so....biggest sob story wins
Uh, no. Criticism of the tests had zero to do with the decision by higher education schools to drop the standarized test requirements.
The reason the requirement was temporarily suspended is because schools closed last spring and went virtual, and there were no way to administer the tests.
There is no reliance on the test scores because THERE ARE NO SCORES. Instead, schools are weighing actual high school grades more heavily than in the past.
Never seen that site before, looks useful
With billions in endowments I don’t see universities going bankrupt.
Thing is, I’m not talking about Yale. I’m talking about all those small universities and colleges that are not so well protected.
My wife worked for the international student office at a local Christian university. She got to know a lot of kids from Argentina.
They pay significantly lower tuition than US citizens. :(
Yeah but are you transgender? Do you have two Daddy’s?
It will be easier for rich parents to find an excellent writer to ghost write a statement paper than finding a top SAT scorer who proctors their fake special needs child.
If they can provide photos, real or fake, of their child at a BLM march/riot the Ivy doors will fly open.
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