Wake Forest Sold Out

[EL Guapo]

You don’t have to take SAT’s or a standardized test anymore to get into Wake Forest.

The skeptic in me says this is to improve their sports teams and make more money.


http://www.wfu.edu/news/release/2008.05.27.s.php

[Woodrift]

Wow, dont know much about wake forest so just wiki'd them and noticed that they have a really young team, mostly freshmen and sophmores!

Anyway, it's a shame they've done that really. But since it's such a selctive school I guess they have to let the better - cough - 'athletes' in somehow...

[Blazedestin]

Nah. A lot of liberal arts colleges are moving away from SAT's, on the rationale that it's unfair to put so much emphasis on a single morning's work. Additionally, they think that they should be more open to students who simply don't perform well on standardized tests.

Most colleges place SAT's as a secondary qualifier, behind your GPA relative to your strength of schedule.

[ysuallthetime]

I forget if I took the SAT or ACT, one way or the other I was hung over when I took it. Buy hey I still got a college scholly

[Blazedestin]

If your score had two digits, then you took the ACT. =P

[McWatt]

My SATs were mediocre, and my GPA was even more so. Got into school probably due to my excellently BS'ed essay, and just graduated cum laude. Suck mah balls, SAT.

But yeah, I don't think it's selling out. AFAIC, the SATs are meaningless nowadays with rich kids taking thirty million classes to try and get an edge.

[Matt McGuire]

I personally think the biggest factor in admission should be how hard your curricurulum was in HS. People that make good grades in AP courses shouldnt have to be subjected to test scores. They've proven themselves in courses that compare to a college difficulty. I just don't like how a lot of people took cake courses in HS and got scholarships over me because of their GPA and test scores.

[Walter]

This is incredible. SATs are a bunch of bull**** BULL****!!!

Actually I found it ironic that I got a 720 on my math and a 480 in English, yet I was a journalism major... I think I scored so low in English because I couldn't pay attention to those boring stories, so I couldn't answer those dumbass questions like, "What do you think the author meant my this?"

Ugh.

[TRICKaz]

I personally think the biggest factor in admission should be how hard your curricurulum was in HS. People that make good grades in AP courses shouldnt have to be subjected to test scores. They've proven themselves in courses that compare to a college difficulty. I just don't like how a lot of people took cake courses in HS and got scholarships over me because of their GPA and test scores.

Too bad an any idiot can pass any HS class. I know idiots in higher classes than me with straight A's and some of the smartest people ive met barely passing. Tests are a good measure because it shows what you've actually LEARNED.

And Walt I totally know what you mean with those damn stories, but really its not that hard to just...ya know...read em....

[Walter]

Haha it's pretty hard if you fall asleep while reading those stories.

[Walter]

Too bad an any idiot can pass any HS class. I know idiots in higher classes than me with straight A's and some of the smartest people ive met barely passing. Tests are a good measure because it shows what you've actually LEARNED.

Yeah, but SATs don't measure how good of a student the person is.

For example, one of my friends in HS had a 1350, which is really good. However, he failed out of college EIGHT times because he was a lazy ******* who never went to class.

Meanwhile, some of my friends who had 900s, 1000s and 1100s did pretty well in college because they tried. Now, they're pretty successful for being in their mid-20s.

The SAT is a joke. I love Wake Forest for doing this. I will now root for all of their teams.

[Matt McGuire]

College is about effort, not smarts. Smarts help but the people that work their asses off make the best grades.

Test scores don't always predict this. I agree with Walter, kudos to WF

haha: Walter Football, Wake Forest ... coincidence to awesomeness?

[EL Guapo]

I understand there is more to a person than a SAT score and should not be used alone. Wake Forest can now justify entering a student based on "extracurricular activities." I don't know if they will, only they know that.

[ZN0rseman]

My SATs were mediocre, and my GPA was even more so. Got into school probably due to my excellently BS'ed essay, and just graduated cum laude. Suck mah balls, SAT.

But yeah, I don't think it's selling out. AFAIC, the SATs are meaningless nowadays with rich kids taking thirty million classes to try and get an edge.

Yeah, I agree, SAT's mean jack.

Now, if only someone would sue the pants off of Michigan for their discriminatory admissions policy...

[ysuallthetime]

Once again I have no idea what I got. I took the test twice my mom wasn't ahppy with my score the 1st time. I was even more hungover the 2nd time I took the test and got a lower score the 2nd time haha.