AMERICA- Fourteen test days for the 2017-2018 school year; six remaining for the SAT and seven for the ACT. According to the College Board, 1.36 million test-takers took the redesigned SAT in 2016. According to the 2016 ACT National Profile Report, 2,090,342 took the ACT test.
The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a well-known website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for college by measuring key skills like reading comprehension, computational ability, and clarity of expression. Because so many students take the test, it also provides schools with data about how you compare to your peers nationwide.”
But students such as Senior Lang Liang believe that the tests do not truly represent a student's ability or intelligence as he states, “I hope that this one test does not represent me in the college admissions process, because I …show more content…
Liang is not the only student feels that GPA is a better predictor at College Success. Senior Hasala Rannulu at Great Valley located in Pennsylvania states, “I believe that GPA is a better predictor than the SAT and ACT at predicting how well you will do in college.”
According to a study conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, Bates College, Washington State University, Smith College, Wake Forest University, Lawrence University, Franklin & Marshall College, Denison University, Pitzer College, Dickinson College, College of the Atlantic, Wheaton College, and San Francisco Art Institute.
One of their principal finds was that,“There are no significant differences in either Cumulative GPA or graduation rates between submitters and non-submitters. Across the study...Cumulative GPAs...were only .05 lower than submitters, 2.83 versus 2.88. By any standard, these are trivial differences.” This study provides support that the High School GPA can be used as an accurate predictor on its
The SAT and ACT according to PrepScholar, a well-known website created by Harvard Alums is designed to help students with college admissions, states, “....a standardized test meant to show schools how prepared you are for college by measuring key skills like reading comprehension, computational ability, and clarity of expression. Because so many students take the test, it also provides schools with data about how you compare to your peers nationwide.”
But students such as Senior Lang Liang believe that the tests do not truly represent a student's ability or intelligence as he states, “I hope that this one test does not represent me in the college admissions process, because I …show more content…
Liang is not the only student feels that GPA is a better predictor at College Success. Senior Hasala Rannulu at Great Valley located in Pennsylvania states, “I believe that GPA is a better predictor than the SAT and ACT at predicting how well you will do in college.”
According to a study conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, Bates College, Washington State University, Smith College, Wake Forest University, Lawrence University, Franklin & Marshall College, Denison University, Pitzer College, Dickinson College, College of the Atlantic, Wheaton College, and San Francisco Art Institute.
One of their principal finds was that,“There are no significant differences in either Cumulative GPA or graduation rates between submitters and non-submitters. Across the study...Cumulative GPAs...were only .05 lower than submitters, 2.83 versus 2.88. By any standard, these are trivial differences.” This study provides support that the High School GPA can be used as an accurate predictor on its