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...single largest institution to require both the SAT I and SAT II—revealed the SAT I was a worse indicator of future performance than the SAT II exam or high school GPA. The study also revealed that reliance on the SAT II reduced the effects of socio-economic differences among applicants, thus correcting the major complaint against the SAT I. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 recognizes those predictive shortcomings of the SAT I. He says, “If you want to predict grades at Harvard, the best thing...
Despite its changed format, the new SAT seems likely only to reinforce the socio-economic bias of the exam. Consider the new writing section. According to Fitzsimmons, writing skills strongly correlate with personalized education more often received by students from affluent backgrounds. He said, “In the real world I would make one prediction, the writing, the third R, really does require small classes and lots of individual attention. You will see students from poorer backgrounds do quite badly on the writing portion...
Case in point, it would seem, are the other Ivies. They’re almost all just as socio-economically top-heavy as Harvard. But although Harvard is not a lone repository of wealth in the Ivy League, other top schools—even some Ivy League schools—do income diversity better, suggesting universities are not necessarily powerless in the face of societal inequality and that Harvard could be working harder...
...scarcely get worse under the status quo, a policy that the Democrats are tacitly supporting through obstruction. Further, parents who can scrape together enough money to afford to send their kids to private schools do, and the rest of the students (by far the worst off in terms of socio-economic status) are left to languish in public schools...
...specific individual is brought into this world because of an accident of birth, and where each child ends up socio-economically cannot be used by the government for or against her. Judging an individual on a monetary level is as arbitrary as judging one on the color of one’s skin or one’s religious beliefs. Maybe more economically successful individuals were raised in wealthy towns, could afford to be sent to private schools and pay for expensive SAT tutors and so on. Some see this as unfair, and insist that these people should be forced...