Dave Volek
1 min readAug 14, 2023

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Educator here.

Sorry, I've seen too many examples where collegiate advisors try to fill unsold student positions by temporarily lowering standards for students to get into those spots as compared to more normal times. Maybe one in 10 students finds success. But the other nine have a bad experience with post-secondary education. They should have re-taken their high school courses.

So I see that by allowing the lower SAT scores to enter college (because they are Black) as an extension to this bad policy.

As my original article suggests, we need to look at a study that shows the correlation between SAT score and academic success.

As a mathematician, you probably know what an R value is. So I will just hypothesize that such a study will give an R of 0.50. There is a reasonable correlation. Even if R=0.25, I would still say there is a correlation. But at this level, we would have to consider the expense of delivering the SAT program against the lower strength of this correlation.

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I find it very interesting that all my recent reading on this matter focuses on admissions, not graduates.

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Dave Volek
Dave Volek

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