Objective or subjective admissions

poetgrl
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:19:00 +0000

TV4caster, Now that I understand you are from Virginia, I see what you are trying to talk about.

There are very few states, however, where an instate kid is going to face what the kids face in your state. it’s not a systemic problem, but it is an issue in virginia.

I refuse the validity of the “objective” label for the SAT, given the fact that socioeconomic and racial factors are diffed in the test in such a way that URM’s score lower on easier, socially normed in questions, even when they score well on the more difficult, non-normed problems. The SAT measures racial and economic differences, for sure, and any test that does that so consistently is not an objective measure. I put in a cite earlier in the thread and I’m not going back to retrieve the link.

The SAT was originally developed from military IQ tests, but has been changed significantly, over time. Show me a cite, besides the one you did, which warns that it is not really accurate, and then we will talk. The cite must deal with the most recent SAT, and not the ones before 04.

All that said, Virginia is a state that is tough on it’s high stat kids.