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Pitt defends SAT tallying
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| 09/12/2002
| Bill Schackner
Posted on 09/12/2002 6:41:37 AM PDT by freedomcrusader
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg yesterday defended Pitt's practice of excluding athletes and other special category students when calculating the school's SAT average, and criticized a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about the practice.
"I believe the coverage has been unfair to a number of people who do their work and do it effectively and do it ethically and do it honestly," Nordenberg said.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: diversity; pc; politicallycorrect; satscores
I wonder if "Admitted through special admissions program" shows up on Pitt transcripts?
To: freedomcrusader
A good number of Pitt students fall in the 700-800 SAT range anyway. Wonder just how low the 'special' admission students score.
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posted on
09/12/2002 6:45:21 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
To: freedomcrusader
I wonder if "Admitted through special admissions program" shows up on Pitt transcripts? Its not really necessary. You can kind of tell when they show up to an interview and cant speak proper English.
Owl_Eagle
Same old Pitt, still stinks like
.
To: Owl_Eagle
Yeah, but it'd save you and your employees the hassle of scheduling the interview, and meeting with the person...
To: freedomcrusader
You can't expect them to include minorities in their "real" report of SAT averages. Every elitist liberal knows that minorities can't compete on the same level as the WASP students, that's why we have affirmative discrimination programs.
oh... </Sarcasm>
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posted on
09/12/2002 6:54:51 AM PDT
by
MrB
To: freedomcrusader
As a Pitt Alumni, I can tell you unequivacably that athletes and "at risk" students are not treated remotely the same as the rest of the student body in nearly every way... Nothing really new here, just broght to light what everyone on campus always knew.
To: freedomcrusader
As long as we don't count "oral" sex as sex, we don't have to count admitted students as students.
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posted on
09/12/2002 7:03:54 AM PDT
by
Drango
To: OldFriend
If you go about getting the real numbers, you'd better have your heart medicine handy.
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posted on
09/12/2002 7:44:42 AM PDT
by
mrustow
To: Drango
Of course, that depends on the definition of "student"
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posted on
09/12/2002 8:39:01 AM PDT
by
Fidgit
To: freedomcrusader; OldFriend; HamiltonJay
Note that excluding the scores of the "special category" students who are said to be 10% of the total had the effect of raising the average score by up to 33 points. This indicates an enormous concession to such students in SAT points, and that such students will 1) adversely affect any class in which they participate (the class can only operate at the level of the slowest student), 2) cause grade inflation (minority students must be given at least a C+, or the instructor will face charges of "racism"), and 3) lead to racial unrest on campus, as such students, badly over their head and with high dropout rates, turn bitter and blame their troubles on "racism." The extraordinarily high dropout rates of such students is rarely discussed. It is a human tragedy, as these students might have had some success at an institution more commensurate with their abilities, but all that matters to the university administrators is "meeting the numbers," and thereby assuring the flow of federal money.
To: thucydides
You don't know the half of it......
To: freedomcrusader
Everybody keeps remarking on how smart Harvey Pitt is, but looking at his immense heft--I'd say over 300 pounds--it just points out the inadequacy of SAT and IQ tests in measuring "intelligence." Personal health should be a priority for any intelligent person.
Larry Lindsay also worries me.
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posted on
09/17/2002 5:00:34 AM PDT
by
montrose
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