The article titled “University of California eliminates SAT, ACT exams from admissions process” (Eastbaytimes.com, May 21) failed to mention the UC faculty’s Academic Senate’s recommendation, by a 51-0 vote, to keep the tests.
If one only read this article, one would have no idea why anyone supports the tests.
In fact, grades, like test scores, also correlate with class, as does every other indicator of academic achievement. Middle-class kids are on average better prepared for college than poorer kids. Is this a revelation?
Standardized tests at least provide a standardized, comparable measure of student ability that’s not based on how well they get along with their teachers.
Grades are a potpourri of information totally biased in every way imaginable. That’s why faculty almost unanimously supports keeping the tests in contrast to the political grandstanding to which the regents are prone.
Steve Koppman
Oakland
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