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<p>I think that is where colleges that have a more "holistic" admissions policy will net students who are more suited to their school. Unfortunately the very large schools have to use some measures to even start culling their stack of applications.</p>
<p>I agree, the uneven teaching will be quite apparent. It already is at my son's high school. Very few kids score over a 1400 on the SAT, and we have a National Merit Finalist about every other year. That's out of almost 4,000 students. I am always in awe of the reports on this board, many schools with numerous Merit Finalists and several perfect 1600s in their student body. It is obvious that our curriculum and our prep does not stack up. We will be among those schools not doing well on the new SAT writing I would imagine, but we've long had the issue with depressed SAT scores.</p>
<p>Judging by the number of kids from our area that have washed out their first semester at UT or A & M (or are hanging by a thread), we still manage to get many students shoveled in, when perhaps another environment would have been better.</p>
<p>Oh...and I am also not a fan of NCLB. The TAKs (our state testing) has already inspired many schools to stoop to cheating on the tests. Houston's method of accountability was to just lie about their huge drop out rate. <em>sigh</em> If you shuffle the kids who will fail the test around enough, they just "disappear."</p>