DGS49
Diamond Member
Lawsuit: SAT, ACT are discriminatory
The college board exams, both SAT and ACT, have been refined for decades to make them as reliable as humanly possible in assessing a H.S. student's readiness for college. They are not linear predictors of performance but, when combined with a review of grades, they give college admissions offices an excellent "snapshot" of the student that allows them to admit those with the greatest chance of academic success.
On a personal note, when I first took the SAT's in 1966, I got a relatively high score on the Math and a middling score on the Verbal. My college counselor mentioned to me in passing that students with that profile usually failed out. It indicated someone who was intelligent but lazy. I failed out. But I digress...
Blacks and Hispanics "suck" at the SAT/ACT. "Whites" are average, Asians and Ashkenazi Jews do better than average. This has nothing to do with testing "bias," which both organizations eliminated many, many years ago.
Blacks and Hispanics (and bleeding heart Leftists) complaining that these standardized tests are "no good" is like saying that I don't look good in a photograph. It is absurd. The test shows what the test was designed to show, and it is successful.
If these self-serving anarchists are successful in eliminating the tests, the academic profile of the selective schools will decline, inevitably. You cannot mix shit with good food and pretend that the quality and taste of the food won't deteriorate.
And who benefits from this?
The college board exams, both SAT and ACT, have been refined for decades to make them as reliable as humanly possible in assessing a H.S. student's readiness for college. They are not linear predictors of performance but, when combined with a review of grades, they give college admissions offices an excellent "snapshot" of the student that allows them to admit those with the greatest chance of academic success.
On a personal note, when I first took the SAT's in 1966, I got a relatively high score on the Math and a middling score on the Verbal. My college counselor mentioned to me in passing that students with that profile usually failed out. It indicated someone who was intelligent but lazy. I failed out. But I digress...
Blacks and Hispanics "suck" at the SAT/ACT. "Whites" are average, Asians and Ashkenazi Jews do better than average. This has nothing to do with testing "bias," which both organizations eliminated many, many years ago.
Blacks and Hispanics (and bleeding heart Leftists) complaining that these standardized tests are "no good" is like saying that I don't look good in a photograph. It is absurd. The test shows what the test was designed to show, and it is successful.
If these self-serving anarchists are successful in eliminating the tests, the academic profile of the selective schools will decline, inevitably. You cannot mix shit with good food and pretend that the quality and taste of the food won't deteriorate.
And who benefits from this?