Admissions Officials Shrug at SAT Writing Test
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Colleges that look at SAT scores
I'm doing a project for my Thoery of knowledge class and was wondering it there are certain colleges who don't look at SAT scores during the admission process. Are there any specific statistics that could go along with that?
SAT
i heard on the news that college admission office don't look at SAT scores anymore. colleges are telling students not to take SAT or the ACT test anymore. they said that they only look at the class courses and the extracurricular. they are saying that the SAT and the ACT dosen't really matter anymore.
20 minutes
20 minutes of writing simply cannot measure the strength of a student's writing accurately. Most need to write, rewrite, and rewrite again to achieve a decent-sounding essay. Under such an absurd time constraint while answering a relatively vague question that one must form a definite opinion on, few students can succeed. It does not measure creativity or talent, simply a student's reflex to write the first thing that comes off the top of their head with virtually no thought to facts, spelling, or lyricism.
^Look, that is ONE paragraph. It took approximately 3 minutes to write one paragraph. Times that by five paragraphs equals 15 minutes. It takes the student approximately two minutes to answer the question, leaving 3 minutes at the end to edit an entire essay. That one paragraph above requires at least TEN MINUTES of revision. It's crap!
And anyways, doesn't the admissions essay itself show enough of the student's actual writing skills anyways?
Admissions Officials Shrug at SAT Writing Test
As a District Sales Manager, I review and edit sales letters, quotes, and other various communications from our sales people to our clients. It is absolutely shocking to me how poorly many of the newer COLLEGE RECRUITS do when it comes to writing simple thank you letters or endorsements regarding the items they are trying to sell and make a living from.
It astounds me daily that colleges continue to down grade the quality of their expectations. It really blows my mind that college kids or their parents, pay so much money to attend schools that have zero idea what is happening out here in the real world.
People need skills to be successful. They simply must be able to communicate both verbally and through written form in order to succesfully move around in the business world of today.
Cell phones, text messaging, and other short cuts do contribute to the over all lack of grammatical proficiency, or in their language, how to spell.
I do wonder why with a 32% response we even care about those schools? Why not post the names of those schools so the other 68% (this is called the majority) can make fun of them, recruit their students and generally malign institutions who if they are not actually challenging people to do well, must be in it for just the money?
We have grades to score how we did compared to others or to the curriculum. What is the point if it doesn't matter if we can read or write or do math? Why does it matter if once we leave college, we are dumber for having attended?
my mind
my thoughts are how well i wiil do on the test i mean really these test really complicating and a little hard but i still can ACE them.
