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15 Jul 2020 Conversations with Tyler Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence
“Let’s say that you were to have a cutoff, where “We’re not going to look at anybody who doesn’t have a 1600 on the SAT because that’s already more applicants than there are spots.”
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- Melissa Dell
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- 15 Jul 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yeah, compared to the other standards that are used. Yeah, I think that it depends on the way you use it, right? Let’s say that you were to have a cutoff, where “We’re not going to look at anybody who doesn’t have a 1600 on the SAT because that’s already more applicants than there are spots. ” Then you end up missing a lot of people who are interesting in larger dimensions. But if you look at it within the context of the rest of the application, it does have information. If you look at two students who are similar in other ways, and one of them has a much stronger SAT score than the other, that probably tells you something. But we have to appreciate that the SAT alone conflates a lot of different things and not just that student’s potential to thrive. Again, it’s one of those things, as you point out, what do we really have that’s better? Extracurriculars — maybe to an even greater extent, some students have more opportunities than others. Should we still call them Rhodes scholars?…
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