Word: muhlenberg
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...studies from schools that have dropped the SAT cast doubt on the test's predictive power. Last year more than 80% of freshmen at Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College (which went SAT-optional in 1997) submitted their sats; the average score was 1,183. Nonsubmitters (asked to disclose their scores after being admitted) averaged just 964. Yet the submitters' freshman marks were only a third of a letter grade higher than those of the nonsubmitters...
...test well. The SAT math scores announced last week were the highest in 30 years, but blacks continued to score far below whites on both sections of the test, trailing by a total of 198 points. (The College Board says this is because of differences in educational opportunity.) When Muhlenberg College and Maine's Bates College stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled. Says William Hiss, dean of enrollment at Bates: "Schools that use the SAT are throwing away a third of their talent...
Three years ago, high school senior Joshua Brookstein of Philadelphia didn't worry much about the SAT. He was too busy serving as president of the city-wide student government. His 950 SAT score would have kept him out of most elite colleges. But he applied to Muhlenberg, didn't submit his score and is set to make the dean's list. Another Senator in the making...