re: UC makes landmark decision to drop ACT and SAT requirement for admission

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And so candidates will have to go to graduate school, to prove themselves.

Because college is now just a meaningless participation trophy.

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They'll never eliminate the MCAT, GRE, LSAT,GMAT at least

Didn’t some universities drop the requirements for the grad school exams in order to gain entry?

Let's just keep devaluing a college education.

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Because hiring is ALWAYS fraught with a possibility of hiring a dunderhead. Not all dunderheads are obvious in the interview process.

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That’s fair. Maybe I was thinking too much of my own field where it’s pretty easy to tell if a candidate can code or not.

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They are an elite public university system and can make their own choices. They are still going to admit high quality students. But I do not see this being able to work for lesser university systems. ETA so many downvotes but no actual substantive responses. Sorry I triggered you snowflakes

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How will they know which students are high quality? Grades are nothing more than social credit scores in California. The breed of liberal that judges work by its merit is, unfortunately, a dying breed. I recently left my PhD program for this reason. Logic itself is being demonized, not put on par, but put below emotive “reasoning.”
The useful idiots are going along with it because they believe the tests are racist. The slightly higher up venal administrators are pushing it because they were using Chinese/International student scores (often obtained by cheating) to hide the true caliber of many political admits. Most parents will go along out of narcissism (inability to cope with offspring being judged average). 1 in 7 UCSD students is from China. Add in other major countries in the student population and that’s not a lot of room for taxpayer children of merit.
How can the gifted/talented rise above biased teachers and show their gifts? It’s especially poor timing considering how many high-functioning autistic students, and extremely high IQ bored students, struggle with day to day assignments but blow the SAT out the water.

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UC whatever is worth more on a diploma than Chico State.

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For me, that depends on major, GPA and whether the student worked a job.

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I want to see what happens when a bunch of 800 SATs try to pass Statistics

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Will you please say more about this if you have time? I have very high test scores and made As in stats, but I always found the underlying logic dubious. Am I not alone?

Well, you do have the issue of minimum MCAT scores in med schools. Some races need much higher scores to be competitive, others much lower.

The drop out rate for the lower score groups is much higher though.

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The action by the nation’s premier public university system could mark a turning point in the long-running debate over whether the standardized tests unfairly discriminate against disadvantaged students or provide a useful tool to evaluate college applicants.

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don’t all the students take the same test?

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Eliminating the SAT or ACT will render GPA king for admissions. So now a kid going to a magnet/honors school will be at a disadvantage for taking harder classes then one going to a local school that is easy.

Not all straight A’s are equal

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maybe it will bring more smarter kids back to the schools they were leaving for the advanced studies academies