re: University of California abolishes sat/act testing requirement

Does any online school require these tests?

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This makes affirmative action less complicated, legally.

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This is the reasoning, period. California outlawed race being considered in admissions. When the system became more numerically focused, the percentage of Asians rose considerably while other minorities shrank in numbers. Removing one of the main numerical inputs makes it much harder to judge between two students. The number of Asians enrolled is about to drop while other minorities rise.

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graduated from Delgado

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Dear Friend,

I yearn for the day our TD Mods give us the Delgado Dolphins team option swag


Yours,
superSaint

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I got a 24 on my ACT, a 1530 SAT, 37 on MCAT, and Mother told me once my IQ was 165. I graduated from Delgado. 

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I made a 19 on the ACT. 26 in English and 11 in math

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don't know if you remember taking the ACT

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I do.

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they had some really stupid subjective questions

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Just because you don’t understand their intent doesn’t mean they’re stupid. Most of those questions are IQ and prep questions.

If you took a prep course they prepare you for what to look for and how to answer those questions. Or if you’re natural skilled in puzzle solving and logic games you can figure out the pattern they’re showing and how to play the game.

Both your ability and effort in prep work and base IQ are good things for a college to know, right? Especially when determining academic scholarships and competitive limited entry spots.

The point is not everyone can or even should go to college.

The greatest lie sold to our youth right now is that you have to attend a 4 year university to do anything.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with learning a trade and there is no reason we can’t have a shorter two year system for basic business, accounting, and economic principles.

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It’s like parents don’t want to be the parents whose kids don’t go to college because then their parent friends will look down on them or something.

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Class anxiety is certainly part of it.

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A lot of people will here will probably shite on this because it's California but those test are worthless

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Yea because it's not like some schools or entire school systems inflate their grades. It's been awhile but didn't a NO school's valedictorian not pass 10th grade level testing or something like that and finding out they inflated grades of the good kids to give them a chance to get away from the crap.

I do agree to point that tests may be over emphasized and that there shouldn't be a micro economy based on tutoring and improving test scores along with students taking them too many times; but without some standard test and rating system for students, schools, & school systems (including across states) GPA is hard to use outside of comparisons of students taking same classes within individual schools and some school districts that work on consistency or that don't have magnet or charter schools while letting the rest go to hell (even then whether new or other reasons top 10% of one school wouldn't all be in 10% in next school 2 miles away which along with filling out sport teams in one HS near us at the time was reasoning for some to seek transfers from our assigned HS to a newer school that several years ago started with just a freshman class and had a lot of open slots to fill out JR and SR classes).