Page 3 of this document shows the relationship between six year graduation rates, SAT scores, and high school grade point average. More or less, I'd dare suggest that if a student doesn't have at least a 3.0 high school GPA and 1000 points on the SAT (20 on the ACT), they really have no business at a four year college.
As I see colleges with graduation rates well below 50% dropping the ACT and SAT for admission, it strikes me that what they're doing with their marginal students is to take their tuition money and give them nothing in return--more or less stealing the assets of vulnerable young people. They need to be reminded that community college used to be how the four year schools used to address marginal students--"get your general education at community college, and talk to us when you've passed those classes with a minimum of a 3.0 GPA", and all that.
But I guess it's somehow "racist" to not steal the assets of vulnerable black people. Sigh.
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