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Standardized tests aren’t an equal measuring tool for knowledge or intelligence. Nit everyone knows the strategy and methods for performing optimally on standardized tests and there are those that do who overperform. Some people don’t test well in those kinds of tests but would be a much better fit in a university program than someone who knows how to test well.

Even if this is true, which I have serious doubts, it’s still the best way and most fair way to determine who gets into certain colleges and programs. The “wholistic” approach to admissions is a bunch of poppycock that progressives use to justify discriminating against some groups of people in order to make their admissions brochures more diverse looking

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Posted by TigerDoc

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Posted on 11/19/22 at 12:24 pm to GeauxxxTigers23

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Even if this is true, which I have serious doubts, it’s still the best way and most fair way to determine who gets into certain colleges and programs. The “wholistic” approach to admissions is a bunch of poppycock that progressives use to justify discriminating against some groups of people in order to make their admissions brochures more diverse looking

The elite institutions are driving this. They're anticipating the effects of the Supreme Court likely striking down racial considerations in admissions. If standardized tests remain a factor, these standarized tests will become more important than before in admissions and populations who do very well on these tests (most significantly Asians) stand to dramatically increase. These institutions are trying to avoid the inevitable blowback from that.

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