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Agreed, a lot of the problems you come across on the SAT/ACT are such unique setups that if you don't see similar types of questions beforehand, it's hard to do well. The thing I'll be interested to see is which universities actually take advantage of this and don't look at SAT/ACT scores. I feel like schools will continue to look at them as a benchmark for acceptance.
Your numbers seem impossible to be true.
That’s not really the argument though. It’s an additional data point to use in evaluation. Tons of school inflate gpas through through what course work they take compared to others. There are also plenty of kids who are smart who don’t apply themselves in high school as much for different reasons (jobs, sports, boredom) and that can change dramatically when they get to college and are actually paying for their education and can pick what they want to learn. I never said that gpas should not be considered just that test scores are also a good way to evaluate potential students.
That was me in high school. Most nights I did no homework, and my grades reflected that. I didn't really try until senior year. Without my SAT/ACT scores, I never would have gotten into CU engineering. I did well once I got in though.
Not sure if that was intentional.
100% wasnt but it does really drive the point home I guess....
Im merely regurgitating what he said. They simply said standard tests didnt offer much compared to the hassle they caused. And that grades in HS were the best indicator of success in college. The idea that 30 to 40 teachers would collude in a conspiracy to give a kid grades he she shouldnt get or doesnt deserve has been extremely rare.
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I think the assumption about schools messing with GPA or the curve would be that it benefits college prep schools to have more kids in better colleges. If inflating grades achieves that goal there is incentive for them to do that.Im merely regurgitating what he said. They simply said standard tests didnt offer much compared to the hassle they caused. And that grades in HS were the best indicator of success in college. The idea that 30 to 40 teachers would collude in a conspiracy to give a kid grades he she shouldnt get or doesnt deserve has been extremely rare.
This guy is Also saying that standardized test scores were not a factor in outcomes at his school. They filed test scores that did come in before 2020 on a “test flexible“ policy they used. He said in some cases the score might have clouded the decision to admit:
Jonathan Burdick, is The University of Rochester vice provost for enrollment initiatives and dean of admissions and financial aid.
“There wasn’t a basis to say that those tests scores would have made us make better or even different decisions,” Burdick said.
Students who were admitted on the basis of, say, their IB scores and later had low SAT scores submitted “have graduated in equivalent numbers to anybody else, in four years and in many cases with honors,” Burdick said. “Had we had the SAT it might have made us less likely to make the good decision.”
The university will go fully test-optional in the fall of 2020.
What really bothers Burdick is the “the distortion of two years of your life during high school,” studying for the ACT or SAT. “You could be spending that 60 hours or more doing test prep doing other, more meaningful things that actually are more productive for your life in the long run.”
Record number of colleges stop requiring the SAT and ACT amid questions of fairness
Standardized admission tests “have lost their luster as a common yardstick.”
I agree that grades can be inflated. Ive seen it first hand. The kids that do put in the hard work also advocate for themselves and seek out extra credit to insure they pass with the highest grade possible.
My daughter hates taking classes that offer a maximum grade of an A 4.0. Because her GPA is 4.3 she wants it to go up further. But PE is PE and you have to take it and it slightly pulls down your overall GPA. Interestingly her SAT score on the first attempt wasnt as good (She refuses to admit what she got) but her ACT score was much better.
Were you ok with the next sentence?
I think that’s unfair.
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Political hire, political fire.Guest Opinion: Jonathan W. Pidluzny and Tom Lucero: Kennedy inherited inequities
The termination of Mark Kennedy is a political act, and the faculty, to their shame aided that effort.
Lucero, a former Regent, and the other author nail it. A partisan political move by the dishonest BFA, in coordination with new Board control by Democrats. The BFA had no problem dishonestly and deceitfully resorting to character assassination to terminate Kennedy. Standard tactics of the left - the new President will need to pass an unspoken political litmus test approved by the BFA and BOR.
"What is certain is that the termination of Mark Kennedy is a political act, and the faculty, to their shame, aided that effort."
"That’s right: to censure a system leader installed 21 months ago, Boulder faculty discussed (then elided) longstanding trends on its own campus!"
"And in 2017, Boulder ranked last among PAC-12 schools for ethnic diversity, with Black and Latinx students badly underrepresented compared to Colorado’s demographics."
"The censure resolution, so strangely linked to the Regents’ decision to terminate the president, is a partisan act—an attempt to cancel a university leader for his political leanings and a shameful reminder that politicizing the academy weakens higher education."
That one, he abides.
Dude.
My daughter is applying to colleges this coming Fall. We live in TX and she is applying to UT and some other flagship schools (UGA, UF, Wisc). I haven’t looked at Florida or wisc yet, but both UT and UGA weigh class rank heavier than GPA (and both are SAT optional for Fall ‘22 enroll). Right now my daughter is 50-75% honors AP and has an equivalent 3.9 GPA (they do it on a 100 point scale here). Yet she is ranked 45% in her class of 400.
Wait, you're daughter had a 3.9 and that puts her at the 45% mark?!? What the heck?My daughter is applying to colleges this coming Fall. We live in TX and she applying to UT and some other flagship schools (UGA, UF, Wisc). I haven’t looked at Florida or wisc yet, but both UT and UGA weigh class rank heavier than GPA (and both are SAT optional for Fall ‘22 enroll). Right now my daughter is 50-75% honors AP and has an equivalent 3.9 GPA (they do it on a 100 point scale here). Yet she is ranked 45% on her class of 400.
This may be how schools are combatting grade inflation. “Don’t matter what your GPA is. Only how you did compared to your classmates”
My grades in high school reflected that attendance and busywork were a huge chunk. I blew off stuff that wasted my time, so my grades suffered. The system is designed that way so that students of average or lower intelligence can succeed or at least graduate without mastering the material. I check out if not challenged.
Do you even understand that it was a laughable political hire to start with? C'mon man.
