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Re: Another Ivy college brings back the SAT. White-hating racists explode.

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Feb 8, 2024, 9:46:07 PMFeb 8
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HangTextDrivers <hangtex...@gmail.com> wrote in
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> The cancellation of the SAT 4 years ago was never about covid. It was
> about the proven fact that black students do terrible on standardized
> tests ( since they are horrible readers) and graduate from HS due to
> affirmative action grading. Letting them attend an Ivy means certain
> failure.
>
> https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/02/07/dartmouth-reinstates-the-sat-n37
> 82546
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> feb 7 2024 When Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing
> requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, it was a
> pragmatic pause taken by most colleges and universities in response to
> an unprecedented global pandemic. At the time, we imagined the
> resulting "test-optional" policy as a short-term practice rather than
> an informed commentary on the role of testing in our holistic
> evaluation process.
>
> Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our
> admissions process as well as its value as a predictor of student
> success at Dartmouth, we are removing the extended pause and
> reactivating the standardized testing requirement for undergraduate
> admission, effective with the Class of 2029.
>
> An academic study released last summer by the group Opportunity
> Insights, covering the so-called Ivy Plus colleges (the eight in the
> Ivy League, along with Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and the University of
> Chicago), showed little relationship between high school grade point
> average and success in college. The researchers found a strong
> relationship between test scores and later success.
>
> Likewise, a faculty committee at the University of California system
> — led by Dr. Henry Sánchez, a pathologist, and Eddie Comeaux, a
> professor of education — concluded in 2020 that test scores were
> better than high school grades at predicting student success in the
> system’s nine colleges, where more than 230,000 undergraduates are
> enrolled.

Racist Democrats are shitting their pants because their efforts to
marginalize whites are failing.

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