The Misguided War on the SAT
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html
David Leonhardt:
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. The relative advantage of test scores has grown over time, the committee found.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html
David Leonhardt:
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. The relative advantage of test scores has grown over time, the committee found.
Related:
What’s Bad for Harvard Is Good for America
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-03/what-s-bad-for-harvard-is-good-for-america
The nation’s elite universities are an unaccountable oligopoly, and the signaling they convey is overvalued.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-03/what-s-bad-for-harvard-is-good-for-america
The nation’s elite universities are an unaccountable oligopoly, and the signaling they convey is overvalued.