The move comes amid a debate over the tests' fairness, as well as the stresses of the ongoing pandemic.

Who else has a feeling this change is due to internal pressure that there aren't enough domestic applicants that can make the grades?

Gotta have some way to fight back against "Chi-com" influence

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah I was always dogshit at school but I test really well because my brain is kinda fucky, so I basically neurodiverged my way into perfect scores in a couple sections and went on to fail several classes in college lol

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is true though I also don't think optimizing for college success re: attributes of applicants is good to emphasize. We should be, collectively, making students who are "unlikely" to succeed and explicitly admit + support them because clearly society has failed them.

      Being "likely" to succeed is generally a proxy for political economic advantage and social marginalization.

      • discountsocialism [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Success in college is also weakly correlated with success in the labor market too. Since upward class mobility is fiction in this country, and the school system doesn't help us succeed, then wtf are we doing? Hell, even subsidized preschool that focus on school readiness instead of childhood wellbeing has been found to decrease cognitive ability in children.