Testing Disparities Persist Post Varsity Blues

Jan 21, 2020, 4:07 PM

(from Inside Higher Ed) While the cheating exposed by the Operation Varsity Blues was egregious, it is an outlier in inequities in the college admissions process, argues private testing tutor Ben Paris. He suggests we should focus more energy on the opportunities to cheat currently "in plain sight," such as sharing responses between time zones, fake IDs and bribing proctors. He also calls attention to accommodations. "While kids whose families can afford to pay for a diagnosis will get extra time on the SAT and ACT, kids who aren’t even aware that this is an option will run out of time, get bad scores, be stuck in remedial classes, drop out with huge loans and so on," he wrote.

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