the SAT is extraordinarily easy to game
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sure if youre the sort of person who could crush the sat anyway
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the time (and resources) high school students spend gaming the SAT take away from other, more meaningful pursuits high school students end up less prepared for college in the end, college work suffers
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probably the question is: are SATs easier to game than other tests? I doubt it idk strivers are gonna game whatever you put in front of em classes included
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like man the shit I saw premed students do
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premeds get blown out the fuck out by ochem, and rightfully man the people who make it can only make it because they've been doing the requisite coursework for years; focusing on the SAT incentives the opposite--quick gain, versus longer, more difficult to develop skills
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incentivizing students to take harder classes, earlier, helps everyone in the end, improving the quality of ed they get further down the line generally the more of the "college" curriculum you can push back down (where it belongs), the better
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I pretty generally agree with this, and also I think the obvious solution if you go the follow the logic trail is "get rid of existing schools and replace them with nonmandatory skill-based certification"
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using SAT instead of A-level/baccalaureate-style exams (think AP) is dumb, but even dumber is the selecting people based on essays and extracurricular activities (i.e. brand-building)
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I've got mixed feelings about that if you really do want to select on ability without respect to access to good programs, SAT's probably a good way to go on the other hand maybe it doesn't select for holistic success in college (whatever that means) as well as AP
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For most of HS I had between a 1.something and 2.something GPA, and ended up where some peers who were near 4 go... I think because of my SAT and cover letter with math/programming stuff.
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A popular local college that visited my HS refused to meet with me, they were literally in the room waiting for students and wouldn't meet me.
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wow,
@UChicago eliminating the one way for smart kids from fucked up backgrounds to have a chance in favor of full reliance on the kind of intergenerational family-as-institution support that generates impressive college entry CVs, so brave -
who needs postsecondary when it's all free online anyway weed out the dollars > sense crowd much easier this way
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