The Death of Merit
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What to Know: California groups are demanding that the University of California drop its SAT requirements, claiming that SAT tests discriminate against the disadvantaged.
The TPPF Take: Eliminating the SAT and other such admissions tests will harm those disadvantaged students in the long run.
“In my experience, the SAT and ACT, though not perfect, are better than most measures out there for predicting whether a student will succeed in college,” says TPPF’s Tom Lindsay. “Rampant grade inflation has made high school grades all but meaningless. The result of this move is not all that hard to predict: Primarily white, suburban, and affluent kids will get an even greater upper-hand in college admissions over poorer, inner-city, minority kids than they might already enjoy.”
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