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those with high test scores tend to have higher family income
Kids will now get into expensive taxpayer-funded schools based merely on having the appropriate skin color or sexual depravity.
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/05/18/university-california-president-proposes-dropping-satact
https://edsource.org/2020/uc-suspends-sat-act-requirements-for-2021-applicants/627670
Arguments against standardized tests say that success in college is more correlated with high school gpa than test scores, and also that those with high test scores tend to have higher family income, giving unfair advantage. Neither of these points surprise me, but the idea of getting rid of standardized tests and ways of measurement is just oh so convenient to the diversity-hire over competence mantra we see being pushed acapolitically.
I don't like this.
IMO and experience GPA sucks as a measure for competence, mainly because you can get a good GPA primarily via effort and good study habits while having very mediocre mental capacity. I know from personal experience that I was able to move up from my usual ~3.2 gpa to a 4.0 for years when I slightly boosted my efforts but focused on reducing risk/volatility (ie, no doing last minute homework that might end up late, costing me points). While you can study for the SAT/ACT, it's much harder to get a high score far beyond what you deserve. Basically, I think a good standardized test score is much much more trustworthy. Also, some schools set the bar much lower than others, making GPA suck more.
While I do think there's some value in looking at how hard a student works when considering whether they will succeed in college, I just can't get onboard with the idea that things would be better without a standardized test. If we do that, then you'll see more teachers and schools giving out participation trophy report cards with the hope of helping a student get into the college. And then, once the student is admitted, their failures and struggles will become a big problem because they'll tend to have racial correlations. So, it will be blamed away as raycism / sexism etc... at the college level, and calls will be made to make more system changes because "these highly qualified students shouldn't be struggling in college like this! raycism!!"
Meanwhile, the poor student believes they're a victim, and will become jaded and angry at society, even though it was really the system that tried to make them pretend their way through it all, but once they hit the job market, pretending doesn't work.