Alexis Zaragoza
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Xo_ah🌻☀️ :
Uhmm no they need to bring the SAT back Research consistently shows SAT scores correlate meaningfully with college GPA and graduation rates. I just hope there is assistance w low income students like before.
2026-06-15 20:21:03
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Jackie :
Can you share some examples of the questions that are biased?
2026-06-15 20:30:31
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Confused Scientist :
The SAT is far more equitable than other admissions standards like extra curriculars and GPA. It is also positively correlated with every positive outcome these schools look for. Some of the schools even published their own research!
2026-06-20 14:01:40
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jodibalma903 :
Read the letter from the faculty - students accepted to the UC San Diego could not solve the problem 5+2 = x + 4
2026-06-15 22:48:03
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999_kadi :
Nope. Id say im upper middle class...my parents can absolutely afford tutoring but guess what? i spent zero dollars...if a student is motivated enough, they will use free resources online, like khan academy, there are tons of practice tests, if you look for 10 min you can find test booklets for free on reddit (pirated) that all you need to find is an internet connection and even a cell phone (like i did). I graduated (co26, cal '30) and i scored a 1550 on my sat after a few attempts. my math score was 800 after some prep, my reading score was 760....I do agree with you that the reading section is harder than the math, but with the abundance of test prep materials availabel on the internet, I dont like it when we say the sat is still paywalled...the only factor deciding a students sat score is how motivated they are to study for it, if they want it to contribute to their application to a top school (or system like the UCs). You also have to consider from the university side, sure they are public institutions that are meant to educate the masses...but schools like berkeley and ucla are the cream of the crop that rank among the top schools in the world among academics...such schools need to focus their efforts on the cream of the crop (shown in their roughly 10% acceptance rate)....if students need additional academic assistance, there is the massice california community college system (and from there they can transfer into a UC...plus admission rates are higher for CC transfers)...students get the help they need and they get to attend a top public college system. ANd if were being real, the sat is prob the least corrupted part of college admissions...i have a friend (rich AF)...he paid 15k for essay help, 10k on sat tutoring, 10k for fake research actvities...hes def smart but not as motivated as stanford students (he got accepted into stanford)....my point is that theres bigger fish to fry if we want to make the college admissions process more equitable and fair for everyone, while ensuring the students that are meant to get help actually get helped towards their own merits. feel free to respon, id love to have a discussion :) discourse is the best way to learn!
2026-06-16 17:49:27
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steveqxrg7o :
While the SAT is not great, every other metric is even worse and more unfair.
2026-06-16 15:28:11
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berriee_nicee :
College entrance exams are also very inaccessible. I lived in a small in the outskirts of San Diego, Ca. Not only do you have to travel out of your home town to take the exam (in my case), but the SAT, ACT, and GRE are $$$ !!
2026-06-16 03:47:46
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Jagger Guns :
The reading section is the problem section, it’s impossible to prepare for without tutoring and tons of prep. However, the math section is important and should be required, they should make a math-only SAT. With just geometry and a tiny bit of alg 2 you can get an 800 on math with zero prep outside of your math class at school
2026-06-16 17:36:20
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Matt :
students lacking college prep are harmed more by failing remedial classes at university than taking a standardized test
2026-06-16 06:15:08
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dc :
just say you did bad on the SAT
2026-06-17 21:21:50
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I :
Not only should the SAT be brought back but it should be made harder like the French Baccalaureate
2026-06-16 14:24:38
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Alexander Stockbridge :
The SAT is the worst indicator of college success; except for all the other indicators we've been using. All the reasons that a person could take advantage of a college admissions exam are equally true for all the other indicators people use.
2026-06-18 05:12:43
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Riven1K :
Did these studies account for confounds? Were students from different groups controlled for academic performance through other indicators? Citing the study would be ideal
2026-06-15 23:56:19
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JeffTN818 :
SAT is coming back because high school education is highly variable and not comparable.
2026-06-16 16:43:59
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Mufasa :
I went back to school after 10 years I honestly forgot most of my math skills my CC required me to take a supplement class on top of my math class and it help so much . I think the SAT is good for stem majors and can help colleges place kids in the right level of math .
2026-06-16 08:15:56
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zoe🐷 :
what if i wanna apply next year but didn’t take it??? would they let college students take the sat?
2026-06-16 02:32:06
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Dr. Terry Simpson, MD, FACS :
Agree 100%
2026-06-18 13:37:41
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ImFekenFitness :
Do you teach college?
2026-06-16 22:34:37
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Sunny :
💯💯💯💯 this was an issue before they removed the SAT
2026-06-16 18:25:54
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Jacob Smith :
The Kidder and Rosner paper is 24 year olds and doesn't address the current SAT well. Friedman et. al 2025 found that SAT/ACT strongly predicts college GPA even after controlling for race and income and found no calibration bias. Sacredote, Staiger and Tine 2025 found that test-optional policies at Dartmouth actually *harmed* disadvantaged applicants. Sackett 2012 found that among 150,000 studies, SAT scores provides predictive validity above grades even after controlling for SES. The idea that it's a bad test because rich kids simply buy their way to good SAT scores is just not supported by the data at all. And if you don't trust Collegeboard (I don't), all these findings are largely true for the ACT as well.
2026-06-16 18:49:52
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MORG 💋🪩📚🍸💄🍒 :
I’m an 11th grade ELA teacher at a school serving an overwhelming majority of black and brown kids in a state where SAT is THE state exam. I say all of this to say that I am intimately familiar both with the exam and teaching the population you’re discussing here. With that said, I disagree with your argument here. Firstly, the “data” on the exam you’re presenting here is 5-24 years old; the test has gone through two MAJOR overhauls since the item analysis you cite and one major overhauling than the other two. In 2024, the test was re-vamped dramatically: the exam was shortened significantly, the math sections now allow calculators throughout the entirety of the exam, and most importantly, the exam is now adaptive meaning that students who demonstrate lower proficiency in module 1 are given a more appropriate module 2, such that they can be assessed more fairly and accurately. Additionally, CB’s exclusive, official partner is Khan Academy, which was made free on purpose to be more equitable. Is the exam perfect? Absolutely not. However, the ed data we have shows a very strong correlation between being successful on the exam and being successful in higher education. With grade inflation and transcript padding, two 4.0 students with several AP courses and extracurriculars under their belt can and do have dramatically different levels of proficiency. Test optional applications have placed many ill prepared students in institutions that are dually unprepared to support their learning. I agree with your points that the exam, like all aspects of American education, is inequitable. However, it feels extremely disingenuous to make a video about how proponents of re-introduction of the exam are misrepresenting data when you’re predicating your argument on scholarship which is no longer relevant, by a matter of multiple decades, to the exam in question.
2026-06-16 20:35:17
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Inquisitius :
Please explain to me why it’s more ethical to make every middle schooler have to hyper obsess over extracurriculars for 4 years (which are also privileged to access) versus just making the test prep free? Every argument for why test scores are biased against poor people just affirms why holistic admissions are even worse for poor people.
2026-06-16 17:38:23
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Saffron :
Colleges shouldn't have to create classes to teach students basic high school math they should already know before enrolling in college
2026-06-16 04:37:57
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CashAppSwag :
The SAT is biased, but unfortunately every single other part of the college admissions process is much worse.
2026-06-16 03:49:14
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lopunny :
if you study, you do well on tests. crazy right. it’s almost like showing how smart you can be is the point
2026-06-15 20:27:40
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