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...emphasize the SAT usually focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left--the students' GAP, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year--about 40,000--than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts with more resources will...
...emphasize the SAT usually focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left - the students' GPA, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year - about 40,000 - than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts with more resources will...
...Siporin, UCLA's director of admissions, said Connerly could not have been serious about his proposal. "I think (Connerly's) statement is symbolic, unless he intends to have a whole group of people with black pens marking out the personal statements, the clubs and the associations," she said...
...Siporin said Connerly's proposal contradicts the UC system's attempts to reform its admissions process by taking more personal factors into account...
...said taking names from admissions makes the process impersonal and sends a negative message. "There is some kind of belief that things can be done numerically and that is a fallacy. It doesn't work that way," Siporin added...