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It’s still the fairest thing about admissions.  \nEliminating standardized testing would remove the one admissions criterion that can prevent fraud and increase social mobility.  \nBy Jonathan Wai , Matt Brown and Christopher Cha bris March 22  \nThe 33 hedge fund managers, Hollywood actresses, CEOs and other well-connected parents indicted this month didn’t just allegedly commit fraud or pay bribes to get their kids into elite schools. Authorities say they also hired ringers or “tutors” to increase their children’s scores on the SAT and ACT standardized tests that colleges use to make admissions decisions. Some have responded to the scandal by arguing that it proves standardized testing is useless at best and deeply unfair at worst, concluding that it should be eliminated once and for all.“You know, what we should think about doing is just scrapping the whole thing,” one California assemblyman told his local CBS station.  \nIt’s true that any system can be gamed if you’re willing to cheat, and students from wealthier backgrounds do have some advantages over others. But eliminating or watering down the SAT wouldn’t solve this problem; infact, it would make it worse—by removing the one relatively objective admissions criterion that can both prevent fraud and increase social mobility by helping all high school students find the best college opportunities they can.  \nHigher test scores definitely help students get into higher-ranked institutions. We published an article last year in the Journal of Intelligence showing that simply listing U.S. colleges and universities by their average SAT and ACT scores essentially reproduces the influential rankings produced by U.S. News and other organizations, despite the fact that many of these rankings place little emphasis on test scores. ( U.S. News puts 92 percent of the weight on other factors, for example.)  \nIt has become a mantra in some quarters to assert that standardized tests measure wealth more than intellectual ability or academic potential, but this is not actually the case. These tests clearly assess verbal and mathematical skills, which a century of psychological science shows are not mere reflections of upbringing. Research has consistently found that ability tests like the SAT and the ACT are strongly predictive of success in college and beyond, even after accounting for a student’s socioeconomic status.  \nParents in the top 1 percent of income are quite likely to be above average in intelligence, conscientiousness, self-control and other traits that can set the stage for success. But they also probably experienced a large dose  \n[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/no-one-likes-the-sat-its-still-the-fairest-thing-about-admissions/2019/03/22/5fa67a16-4c00-11e9-b79a-96198](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/no-one-likes-the-sat-its-still-the-fairest-thing-about-admissions/2019/03/22/5fa67a16-4c00-11e9-b79a-96198)… 1/4  \n3/24/2019 No one likes the SAT. It’s still the fairest thing about admissions. -The Washington Post  \nof luck—favorable circumstances, coincidences, right-place-right-time accidents—and their children won’t necessarily have the same kind of luck. In fact, their children’s test scores tend to mark them for lower-ranked, maybe even much lower-ranked, colleges than their parents might expect based on their own economic achievements.  \nAccording to College Board data from 2016, the average child of parents who earn more than $200,000 per year has a total SAT score of 1155 (on the current scale of 400 to 1600) . This is well above the expected score of a median-income child, which is about 1000. But it is nowhere near exceptional: It is perfectly typical of a student at Syracuse University (ranked No. 288 on our list) but extremely low for No. 9 Stanford (where the average SAT is about 1475) or even No","cbCaipQEIbbpHdSM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipQEIbbpHdSM","pdf",140148,"English","# Outlook\n## Standardized testing and the admissions scandal\n## Predictive value and what tests measure\n## Wealth, tutoring, and GPA inflation\n## Why SAT/ACT remain the fairest comparison","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article oppose eliminating the SAT from college admissions?\",\"answer\":\"It argues elimination would remove the one relatively objective criterion that can both deter fraud and increase social mobility by helping students compare college opportunities fairly.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the article say the SAT and ACT actually measure?\",\"answer\":\"It states the tests assess verbal and mathematical skills, which psychological science links to intellectual ability and academic potential rather than only family background.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article address the role of wealth and cheating in test outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"It acknowledges that tests can be gamed and wealth can create advantages through tutoring, but argues coaching and test-prep gains are limited and that GPA and other substitutes can also be influenced by wealth.\"}]","No one likes the SAT. It’s still the fairest thing about admissions - The Washington Post - March 22 | PDF"]