Generalizations = Not Cool
Oct. 29th, 2008 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xanithofdragonsI have been doing some research for a school project tonight (on which I have procrastinated horribly, man am I setting up bad habits) and one of the articles I found made a statement I could not agree with.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/21/local/me-sat21
It's an article about how the College Board is going to let students choose which SAT scores colleges will see instead of letting colleges see all of them. The article mentions opinions about the new policy from different counselors, admission officials, and even (gasp!) students. Near the end of the article, it says, "Students, however, lauded the move."
Really? Which students? How many students? Did they survey a representative sample of students and find that all of them thought this was a good idea? Because I certainly don't laud the move. In fact, I agree with some "counselors" and "admissions officials" who think this will put students who can afford to take the test at an advantage against students who can't afford to take the test as much.
Am I not a student? (Last time I checked, I went to school today, a high school.)
As many reasons as I can find to dislike the College Board, I don't know whether I'm more annoyed with the generalization in this article or the College Board for all the little annoying things they've done.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/21/local/me-sat21
It's an article about how the College Board is going to let students choose which SAT scores colleges will see instead of letting colleges see all of them. The article mentions opinions about the new policy from different counselors, admission officials, and even (gasp!) students. Near the end of the article, it says, "Students, however, lauded the move."
Really? Which students? How many students? Did they survey a representative sample of students and find that all of them thought this was a good idea? Because I certainly don't laud the move. In fact, I agree with some "counselors" and "admissions officials" who think this will put students who can afford to take the test at an advantage against students who can't afford to take the test as much.
Am I not a student? (Last time I checked, I went to school today, a high school.)
As many reasons as I can find to dislike the College Board, I don't know whether I'm more annoyed with the generalization in this article or the College Board for all the little annoying things they've done.
