MIT reinstates ACT/SAT test requirement

MITChris
Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:16:39 +0000

It’s linked in our blog post.

unequal access to AP coursework across schools: https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Inequities-in-Advanced-Coursework-Whats-Driving-Them-and-What-Leaders-Can-Do-January-2019.pdf

audit studies of recommendations for AP coursework within schools: https://www.smith.edu/sites/default/files/media/Francis_Counselors_BEJEAP_0.pdf

evidence that universal testing increases the # of low income and/or URM students in advanced classes within districts compared to recommendations from teachers/counselors: Universal screening increases the representation of low-income and minority students in gifted education - PMC

@DadSays — not at all trying to issue a broadside against all GCs, and I don’t think the research would support a broad indictment, either (although, as you can see in the literature review of the Francis paper, there is quite a bit of research in this area). The point is that bias — especially/including implicit bias from well-intentioned people — is common in every aspect of the application, not just the SAT/ACT, and we see our job as being disentangling all of that, and doing our best to adjust/project (and to be aware of / adjust for our own biases in the moment as well).