Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Penn, Brown, CalTech, JHU, and UT-Austin to Require Standardized Testing for Admissions

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@Zrt42

…but when he said that the SAT significantly predicts mathematics performance in college, he said that was valuable to MIT, but not excusive to MIT.

This isn’t really accurate. MIT is pretty explicit that MIT is dealing with MIT’s peculiar circumstances, and its approach may not make sense elsewhere. Schools have different approaches, different missions, different pools, different goals. This is especially so with a public university in the UC system, with their unique mission. Here is what @MITChris had to say on this exact subject . . .

@MITChris

100% and it’s very frustrating to me, personally, that we get used as a club to bludgeon other schools. The MIT education is super weird and specific and essentially begins with a series of high stakes math tests in the GIRs, so of course math tests have predictive utility. I can imagine that for some other schools this may not be true; indeed I’d be surprised if it weren’t at least somewhat different elsewhere!

Yet here you are, bludgeoning away, as if MIT’s approach fits all.

Here’s an idea . . . if you approve of MIT’s approach, then by all means send your kids there.