Canuckguy:
Report of the University of California Academic Council Standardized Testing Task Force:
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/sttf-report.pdf
Despite motivated reasoning, they cannot come up with a good reason to eliminate standardized testing. Here are the highlights for me:
HSGPA + standardized test is better than standardized test alone, and standardized test alone is better than HSGPA (but UCs choose to overweigh HSGPA).
HSGPA + standardized test is a better predictor of academic success than SES or ethnicity. R^2 is not all that different across income levels or race.
Standardized test scores actually over-estimate URM performance in college.
UC has much historical data due to their high number of students…the academic senate’s report could even be used for other schools as justification to not go TO.
There are some posts on this other thread as well: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/2173306-uc-faculty-report-recommends-continued-use-of-sat-act-in-admissions.html#latest