ACT chief warns UC that killing the admissions test would harm students

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discrepent applicants with higher test scores than expected for their HS GPA tend to be high SES, while discrepent applicants with higher HS GPA than expected for their test scores tend to be low SES.

Can you provide a link to this research - I haven’t seen it.

College Board research on the topic (for SAT / HS GPA discrepent students):
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED562878
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED562878.pdf