Test also cost money and you could find yourself in the middle class trap where you are too rich to get a waiver but too broke to afford the test.
Test also cost money and you could find yourself in the middle class trap where you are too rich to get a waiver but too broke to afford the test.
The alternative to testing is looking at resumes and various resume-boosting extra-curriculars are substantially more inaccessible to those without means. Merely identifying some edge cases in the current method doesn't make a good argument.
I can think of all of my friends who couldn't be assed to go to the test or ask for voucher, but I couldn't imagine them being academically successful in college anyway.
The percentage of even poor families for whom these are the barriers to taking standardized tests is small enough where you can just have the regular system and come up with special case accommodations for kids who are truly desperate.
>Test also cost money and you could find yourself in the middle class trap where you are too rich to get a waiver but too broke to afford the test.
This test in particular is only $60 even if not subsidized, so it's hard to believe anyone who doesn't qualify can't scrounge up enough for at least the one attempt. However this is a real issue with financial aid as a whole, just 10-20k more a year can have a negative impact on what scholarships/financial aid you can receive, and that can easily end up at over six figures of 'lost' aid.
honestly, im not sure i would ever wish to hire someone who couldnt make this happen
> especially for a teenager who may be smart but may not see the proper cost/benefit of skipping the SAT
The SAT is for students who want to attend college. If $60 and a two hour round trip is going to tilt the scale on whether you spend 4 years in college, then from the college's point of view, you may not be the type of applicant they are looking for.
Then again, back then there was no essay part for the SAT, so lol.
This is the normal way to do it. One state administered batch of exams. Unique national questions. Everyone takes it in their own school. Private school students still do the same state test.
Universities tend to require a minimum overall grade and a minimum grade on the exam closest to what they teach.
But I suppose it would be communism if the federal government did it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the mods get involved.
Shit, having to travel and pay for another test before you can go to college is borderline dystopian...
They do a lot to try to avoid cheating, limit memorizing answers, and so on. There is a conflict of interest with actually trusting the school whose reputation depends on how well their students do. Over the years, I've run into quite a few cheating scandals with other tests where teachers tried to improve scores. Because of that, I think that their precautions are very reasonable.
1: https://blog.prepscholar.com/which-states-require-the-sat
Have not heard of traveling outside your district for SAT’s, I’m not sure why that would happen.
Hell I took the SAT in the 6th Grade and I also took in the school