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Saturday, April 09, 2022
A Thought Just Occurred To Me
Now that California's public universities no longer require ACT/SAT scores for admissions, will my school district still spend a crap-ton of money to administer the PSAT to every junior as we did for a few years before the 'rona?
The National Merit Scholar comment makes sense to a degree, but then shouldn't only college-bound students take the test? A kid who doesn't think they're college bound is probably going to go to a CSU at best, and CSU doesn't require standardized test scores.
Seems like a lot of money for my district to spend for all juniors.
Part of the reason my district gave for giving the test to *all* juniors was that it might identify students who might be college-ready but not considering college for any number of reasons. I'm not convinced that reasoning applies anymore, if in fact it ever did.
They'll do it for the National Merit Scholar program, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteThe National Merit Scholar comment makes sense to a degree, but then shouldn't only college-bound students take the test? A kid who doesn't think they're college bound is probably going to go to a CSU at best, and CSU doesn't require standardized test scores.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a lot of money for my district to spend for all juniors.
True enough. The students who would have a shot are those who would take the test whether it was given by the school or not.
ReplyDeletePart of the reason my district gave for giving the test to *all* juniors was that it might identify students who might be college-ready but not considering college for any number of reasons. I'm not convinced that reasoning applies anymore, if in fact it ever did.
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