For college admissions, let's value grit over GPAs

Resuming a debate that has arisen occasionally in the past, some U.S. colleges have announced that they will no longer require applicants to provide standardized test scores, but instead will look to high school grade-point averages and subjective information.

The institution I lead, Purdue University, will not be joining that group. A review of all the data tells us that no admissions criteria that ignores either the SAT or ACT exams can predict with equivalent accuracy a student’s college performance, or his or her best placement level in critical freshman courses such as mathematics. Accepting a high school A at face value and enrolling a student in a calculus course beyond his or her capabilities does the student a serious disservice by risking an avoidable failure.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-college-admissions-lets-value-grit-over-gpas/2018/11/28/8aa1c9c4-ed09-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html?utm_term=.d2e2449f4c53