RE: The SAT: Public Spirited or Preserving Privilege?

McMahon, Kathleen (kmcmahon@saonet.ucla.edu)
Mon, 4 May 1998 17:45:04 -0700

I am interested if anyone has information on the use of SAT on
admissions (particularly to the University of California schools). I am
writing a paper on stopping the requirement of the SAT for the UC
admission requirements and would be interested if anyone has information
for either the argument for the use or against the use.

thanks very much.
Kathleen
kmcmahon@saonet.ucla.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tweverka@opticworks.com [SMTP:tweverka@opticworks.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 3:29 PM
> To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Subject: RE: The SAT: Public Spirited or Preserving Privilege?
>
> We must take care in evaluating alternative admission criteria. The
> University of California recently considered dropping standardized
> tests in
> its admission requirements, but it found that dropping these tests
> would
> lead to fewer minority students and more males being enrolled.
>
> -Robert
> weverka@optivision.com

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