The University of California school system is considering dropping the SAT test requirement in admission applications
has shown that scores are strongly influenced by family income, parents’ education and race.
in the nation are all UC campuses in Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Davis.about 2 hours and 25 minutes into a recent meeting revealed the enormous stakes, deep passions — and growing impatience — surrounding the issue. On the other side, Regent George Kieffer said he was concerned that if UC eliminated the SAT, the university system could be pressed in a few years to use another test to gauge student performance.
Smarter Balanced tests predicted first-year college grades as well as SAT exams for UC and California State University students with less bias against disadvantaged students, said Michal Kurlaender, a UC Davis education professor who co-authored a UC San Diego, for instance, admitted African Americans, Mexican Americans and low-income students withabout 300 points lower than Asian Americans, whites, and high income students for fall 2016. First-generation students were admitted with scores about 200 points lower than those whose parents attended college.
ACT spokesman Ed Colby said its scores not only predict college success but also provide a common, standardized metric that allows colleges to compare students with widely different sources of information across a range of states and high schools. “No common metric increases the subjectivity of admissions decisions,” he said in a statement.
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