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Klaus's avatar

Personally, letting a bunch of anonymous people judge me "holistically" sounds a lot more stressful than a test I can practice and study for.

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MarkS's avatar

Since I actually personally know some of the people who make these sorts of decisions (and at Princeton specifically, I know people who know those decision makers), part of your cynicism is misplaced. The impetus REALLY IS greater RACIAL diversity. They didn't need to dump the SAT to game legacy admits, athlete admits (which drive sports success which drives future donations: as UC President Clark Kerr once famously put it, "the job of a university president is to provide sex for the students, football for the alumni, and parking for the faculty"), etc. Dropping the SAT is ENTIRELY a respone to SJW pressure. They are horrified as being thought "racist", and worry that the SAT really might be racist (because most of them don't understand statistics, and the ones who do turn a blind eye).

Of course the policies they are adopting actually are racist by the dictionary definition of the word, but not by the modern wokist paradigm.

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