If the University of California drops the SAT and ACT, high school grades are likely to play a larger role in admissions. Is that a good thing?
as admission requirements because of their perceived bias against disadvantaged students and underrepresented minorities. As part of the debate, policymakers are considering increasing the weight of high school grades in the admissions process.of college performance and aren’t as heavily influenced as the standardized exams by income, parent education levels and race.
The six-year graduation rate for those with SAT scores between 900 and 1090 was 81% compared with 83% for those with SAT scores between 1100 and 1600, the highest score possible. If UC drops the SAT and ACT in favor of giving grades greater weight, systemwide graduation rates are likely to drop.
“If you don’t have some sort of standardized tests to balance out grade inflation,” she said, “then that does take one piece of the puzzle away from an admissions professional to help make a decision about a student.”that a greater reliance on high school grades in the name of equity would be “misguided” because grade inflation is associated with wealth.of North Carolina public school students in grades eight through 10 between 2005 and 2016.
Take, for instance, Nathalie Boutros and Samia Alkam. Both students tested below UC Riverside’s average SAT score in their first attempts at the exam as high school students. Both students said they cried often and suffered from severe impostor syndrome, thinking they didn’t belong on campus. “I felt UC was too big for me,” Boutros said.
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