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Llizabeth Woodcock of Bates College, one
of two Maine schools which recently stopped
using SAT scores as.entrance requirements.
Bates and nearby Bowdoin College instead
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rankings, grades, counselor evaluations,
term papers, in-class essays, types of high
school courses taken and a series of three
academic achievement tests.
w A COLLEGE STUDY found "the
achievement tests (were) better predictors
than the SAT and thai (a students) class rank
has always been (a) stronger (predictor) than
the SAT," Woodcock said.
"We discovered that the SAT's picked out
two types of people," she said. "Those
whose SAT scores reflected their high school
scores and those whose SAT scores didn't
reflect their high school scores."
"I have the feeling the SAT might be
culturally biased," said Harvard researcher
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ucuii wiiiiict* rmpamt;s icnu 10 score lower
on the verbal test."
Harvard wants to make the SAT admission
reguiremcnt optional, and let entering
freshmen take a battery of five achievement
tests.
"ACHIEVEMENT TESTS have always
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been stronger predictors," Whitla said.
California could ease freshmen anxieties
even more.
in*; Muic * rusiscconuary truncation
Commission wants to lower Cal State admission
requirements because only 29 percent of
the state's high school graduates can meet the
current standards.
But most colleges are moving in the other
direction, urging high schools to teach
college-bound students what colleges will cxpect
of them, said ACL study author Elain HI
K ha was.
ANI) MOST colleges arc sticking with the
SAT.
"Many schools fear to go beyond the
statndardi/ed tests," El Khawas said. "The
tests only prcdict those who will do fine the
first year. Others may have only fair scores,
but tremendous references and
motivations."
El-Khawas said the higher admission standards
won't keep any students out of a college
they want to attend.
"Students know entrance requirements
beforehand," she said, "and they apply
where they meet requirements and have
similar average scores."
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black people can take; they have to have
some soul."
But black students shouldn't try to
separate themselves from the rest of the
Muucim, saiu ivioscs (Norman, national president
of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
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is more like a succotash, with a bunch of ingredients
that each keeps its own identity."
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Harvard's Willie said, "Whites and blacks
need to associate with each other, because
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what it feels like to be a minority."
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William Sedlacek said, "Administrators
make the mistake of seeing
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from each other, especially when they
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