Astral Codex Ten

SAT

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SAT

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SAT is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 8 times across 8 issues between December 20, 2021 and March 20, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Colleges are ditching the SAT as an admissions criterion”; “admit based on academic merit (measured mostly by SAT scores)”; “people got higher SAT scores”. It most often appears alongside California, United States, US.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 8
  • Issue count: 8
  • First seen: December 20, 2021
  • Last seen: March 20, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That For You
December 20, 2021 · Original source
Colleges are ditching the SAT as an admissions criterion in favor of what opponents would describe as doubling down on legacy admissions, class-based connections, and racism. How far will this process go? Right now, 16% of top colleges don’t require test scores. Metaculus expects that by 2030 it will be 70%.
Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise
December 01, 2022 · Original source
Around 1955 (Brooks writes, building on an earlier book by Nicholas Lemann) Harvard changed their admission policy. Why? Partly a personal decision by Harvard presidents James Conant, and Nathan Pusey, who sincerely believed in meritocracy. And partly because Harvard’s Jewish quota was becoming unpopular, as increased awareness of the Holocaust made anti-Semitism déclassé. Conant and Pusey decided to admit based on academic merit (measured mostly by SAT scores). The thing where Harvard would always admit WASP aristocrats because that was the whole point of Harvard was relegated to occasional “legacy admissions”, a new term for something which was now the exception and not the rule. Other Ivies quickly followed.
Links For December 2022
December 28, 2022 · Original source
Why did Native American scores (light reddish on the graph) crash in 2016? Roland proposes that this was around the time Elizabeth Warren got in trouble for pretending to be Native on her college application. Before then, thousands of high-achieving Whites with 0.5% Native ancestry were attempting the same trick each year; afterwards, they decided en masse that it was too risky and checked the “White” box on the test form instead. Since those people got higher SAT scores than real Natives, this looked like a score collapse. This is complete conjecture based on one guy on Twitter, but do you have a better explanation? [update: alternative explanation here]
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SSC Survey Results On Schooling Types
January 18, 2023 · Original source
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Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
May 24, 2023 · Original source
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Your Book Review: The Educated Mind
July 14, 2023 · Original source
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Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk
September 18, 2023 · Original source
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The Mystery Of Internet Survey IQs
March 20, 2024 · Original source
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