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NABC wants SAT and ACT eliminated as an eligibility requirement for college players
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<blockquote data-quote="IlliniKat91" data-source="post: 1544467" data-attributes="member: 9133"><p>True. But it also doesn't let an unfair admissions standard unfairly prevent someone from getting into college.</p><p></p><p>Eliminating the ACT/SAT from the process doesn't address the systematic ills, but if it allows someone who grew up in the face of adversity the opportunity to access better job opportunities and prevent those systematic ills from impacting their children, where's the harm? The majority of us got degrees because we wanted to maintain or improve upon the socio-economic status we grew up in. Why shouldn't that be available to more people? If they can hack it, great. If they can't, they'll drop out or fail out and it'll be on their own merit instead of the fault of some BS gatekeeping test. (Realistically it'll be because the cost of tuition is outlandish thanks to skyrocketing administrative costs, but that's another thread.)</p><p></p><p>So, I guess this is a way to address the root cause of those poor test scores. It's just being addressed after the fact in the next generation that has access to a better-funded suburban public school instead of a poorly-funded urban or rural one. </p><p></p><p>The fact of the matter is that the ACT and SAT are money grabs by ACT, Inc. and College Board. They're not the first criteria any admissions team looks at, and from what I've learned going to counselor workshops like Illinois, they're not even a tiebreaker criteria any more. They're just the first thing they use to weed out potentially underachieving students and a transcript does that just as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IlliniKat91, post: 1544467, member: 9133"] True. But it also doesn't let an unfair admissions standard unfairly prevent someone from getting into college. Eliminating the ACT/SAT from the process doesn't address the systematic ills, but if it allows someone who grew up in the face of adversity the opportunity to access better job opportunities and prevent those systematic ills from impacting their children, where's the harm? The majority of us got degrees because we wanted to maintain or improve upon the socio-economic status we grew up in. Why shouldn't that be available to more people? If they can hack it, great. If they can't, they'll drop out or fail out and it'll be on their own merit instead of the fault of some BS gatekeeping test. (Realistically it'll be because the cost of tuition is outlandish thanks to skyrocketing administrative costs, but that's another thread.) So, I guess this is a way to address the root cause of those poor test scores. It's just being addressed after the fact in the next generation that has access to a better-funded suburban public school instead of a poorly-funded urban or rural one. The fact of the matter is that the ACT and SAT are money grabs by ACT, Inc. and College Board. They're not the first criteria any admissions team looks at, and from what I've learned going to counselor workshops like Illinois, they're not even a tiebreaker criteria any more. They're just the first thing they use to weed out potentially underachieving students and a transcript does that just as well. [/QUOTE]
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