My cynical take is that there's just more pressure at the classroom level
Could be. SAT and ACT are tests, GPA is a long-term average. So if teachers are routinely going easy on some students, GPA will round out more, as you say.
Also, if problem students are in particular schools, the teachers grading them might be less than ideal too.
We already know SAT is an accurate barometer of intelligence and that it does "discriminate" based on race because plenty of previously prestigious universities stopped requiring SAT results in admissions. SAT was so on target that using it as a factor for admission made it nigh impossible to admit any blacks.
It's only with the benefit of hindsight that I realize a large part of why my college years were such a positive time in my life is because it is the only time I've ever been in an overwhelmingly White environment. Sure we had the odd non-White, but the overwhelming majority of staff and students on campus were White people. I want to recapture that and the organic sense of community that was able to flourish there.
Ah well, back to marching through the hellscape with nothing on the horizon but endless war.
Could be. SAT and ACT are tests, GPA is a long-term average. So if teachers are routinely going easy on some students, GPA will round out more, as you say.
Also, if problem students are in particular schools, the teachers grading them might be less than ideal too.
We already know SAT is an accurate barometer of intelligence and that it does "discriminate" based on race because plenty of previously prestigious universities stopped requiring SAT results in admissions. SAT was so on target that using it as a factor for admission made it nigh impossible to admit any blacks.
It's only with the benefit of hindsight that I realize a large part of why my college years were such a positive time in my life is because it is the only time I've ever been in an overwhelmingly White environment. Sure we had the odd non-White, but the overwhelming majority of staff and students on campus were White people. I want to recapture that and the organic sense of community that was able to flourish there.
Ah well, back to marching through the hellscape with nothing on the horizon but endless war.
Were you on the 'right' at the time?
No.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with this question.