Chances for an international with unfortunate SATs?

Momwaitingfornew
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:00:36 +0000

URM = “underrepresented minority” Undergraduate institutions aim for diversity, and since URMs historically score lower on standardized tests due to the test’s cultural bias and, in the case of economically disadvantaged URMs, to poorer preparation that doesn’t reflect actual ability and intelligence, URMs are given slightly more leeway when it comes to test scores but not when it comes to grades. In the case of LiT’s daughter, I suspect that Smith took a look at the French educational system and determined that her D excelled within that structure in such a way that made her low math SAT meaningless.