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Research from colleges that have dropped the SAT requirement reinforces the notion that the test measures little. Bowdoin College, which started the SAT-optional movement in 1969, often studies how well its admissions officers predict college performance without SATs. It has repeatedly found that its rating--a numerical value assigned each applicant on the basis of GPA, essays and other factors--correlates very highly with the student's GPA at Bowdoin. Factoring in SAT scores improves that correlation only slightly. The College Board says that, across many colleges, SAT scores improve the correlation between admissions predictions and GPA realities...
...traditional SAT-and-ACT-based selection process. This year Grinnell accepted two minority students who participated in the Bial-Dale test. The next step for the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute to the campus environment. If the test does predict with any accuracy a student's persistence or adaptability in college, Bial hopes it will eventually become a standard that colleges use along with high school grades and SAT or ACT scores...
Causing more than 200 injuries and well more than $2 billion in damage, last week's 6.8-magnitude Pacific Northwest earthquake was bad enough--but it wasn't the Big One experts say is still to come. While geologists predict a mega-quake still lies in Seattle's future, they are also looking at a different, equally dangerous big one that is literally looming on the city's horizon: MOUNT RAINIER, the snowcapped volcano that lies 50 miles to the southeast. Though slumbering, Rainier is still active, and last week's quake might have loosened deep rocks that hold molten...
While videoconferencing is nothing new, Ashton and her mom are pioneers. Ashton's child-custody case is among the nation's first in which virtual visitation was ordered by a judge, and experts predict similar court-ordered arrangements will follow as technology advances and 4 out of 10 marriages fail. The son of an electrical engineer, John Sloop, a Seminole County, Fla., judge, has long delighted in the hands-on problem solving of building and repairing machinery, like the two-story grocery lift he helped build for his mother. So it was natural for Sloop, when making the "heart-wrenching...
...next step of the research is to track whether the participants stay in school and how much they contribute to the campus environment. If the test does predict with any accuracy a student's persistence or adaptability in college, Bial hopes it will eventually become a standard that colleges use along with high school grades and SAT or ACT scores...