“This change to the SAT grading on a curve will unfairly hurt Ridgewood …… https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-adversity-score/index.html
Why any parent from Ridgewood would have their kids take the SAT knowing the scores will be curved against them is beyond me. I would guess a move to the ACT replacing the SAT will accelerate as parents and students realize this.”
Fact: Socio-economic factors correlate closely with SAT success.
Fact: Test prep courses in particular give a material advantage to most Ridgewood SAT test takers over say the South Bronx where parents lack the resources for private instruction.
Opinion: This approach is race neutral in that Asian, Caucasian and Black applicants with the same socio-economic factors will be judged the same, so it is much preferable to the system of identity politics practiced now by most admissions offices.
Opinion: Most of the kids in Ridgewood start life off on third base. I have trouble mustering too much sympathy or outrage for this “unfairness”.
#BoycottSAT
I have about a decade before my eldest needs to take some college admissions test, so hopefully this social justice nonsense would lose steam by then.
Fact: kids bear no responsibility to how much time and $ their parents invested in them. Therefore penalising their hard-earned test taking labour is a wrong approach.
Fact: ppl will cheat like mad. Everyone has a Cousin Billy in some shittown whose address they can cite on SAT application to bump up their scores.
Fact: Ridgewood has way above average % of successful people and it won’t be incorrect to speculate that we also have higher than average IQ. And the chances are that some of that gift would be passed to our kids. Bringing scores down for high IQ people is a waste of time. They’ll outcompete their counterparts from Bronx either way.
I could go on, but need to get back to work. Here’s a final fact: the new SAT scoring system would create jobs for HR dropouts and do nothing for kids of poor backgrounds. Just like all the other waste of taxpayer $ social engineering “programs” our well-meaning, upper middle class, white, liberal friends have pushed.
Wanna help kids from disadvantaged families? Bring trade schools to every middle and high school to teach kids practical skills early on. They already have free college to go to if they so desire, regardless of their SAT scores. And if some of them are smart enough to go to Ivy, they can score high enough on their own, without the curve.
I have about a decade before my eldest needs to take some college admissions test, so hopefully this social justice nonsense would lose steam by then
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that’s like saying:
I dropped this ball off the Empire State Building. hopefully it will lose steam….
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Give your kid some Kleenex. Their scores will increase