Reply #103: It depends on the test--the ACT does well in that comparison.

[knitter4democracy]

Then again, it does best for what it was designed for: testing college-prep students. Here in Michigan, that's now the test that all 11th grade students have to take, even the non-college-bound students. I teach in an alternative high school (the one all the local districts try to dump their low-scoring students in), and we have to meet AYP and get our students to do well on the ACT, even though it's an entirely wrong test for the vast majority of them.

Most colleges aren't taking GPA seriously anymore, from what I'm hearing, preferring their own entrance tests or the ACT/SAT scores (whichever they use), but from what we're seeing in the high schools, too many kids are getting left out because of not testing well when the skills are there and obviously so if tested differently.