{"id":71775,"date":"2015-07-27T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71775"},"modified":"2015-07-27T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:14:34","slug":"who-needs-standardized-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71775","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Standardized Tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/boston-says-oh-never-mind-regarding-its-2024-olympic-bid\/#comment-1031079\">Comment to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2015\/07\/27\/george_washington_university_drops_sat_act_test_admissions_requirement.html\">University makes submission of standardized test-scores \u201coptional\u201d for applicants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems likely this game will catch on if, as expected, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to re-take the University of Texas case results in a ruling against overt affirmative action in University admissions next year.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the game will work like this: While SAT scores will be \u201coptional\u201d de jure, they will be required, de facto, if the applicant lacks sufficient \u201cvibrancy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment to Steve Sailer: University makes submission of standardized test-scores \u201coptional\u201d for applicants. It seems likely this game will catch on if, as expected, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to re-take the University of Texas case results in a ruling against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71775\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71776,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71775\/revisions\/71776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}