Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini

lunch, good, bad, and crazy Martini's for you today as usual, and our good one comes from the morning jolt you've taken a look at a

policy change at Dartmouth we've had a lot of criticism for different institutions

in the Ivy League lately but Dartmouth doing something that makes a lot of common sense.

What we saw in the wake of COVID and the wake of other developments in our country was that Dartmouth

and more recently Columbia and others have said you know what

we're not even going to really calculate SAT scores into whether or not we admit

you into our institution but Dartmouth is now reversing that. They are going to consider

SAT scores when it comes to enrollment and that's an important thing for a number of

reasons. First of all it's good to have a baseline. Standardized tests aren't

everything, but over the years they've certainly been helpful to determining who has achieved

well and who has a good understanding before they head into college. But the thing that really stood out to me here, Jim,

is that I think a lot of these institutions

thought when they canceled calculating the SAT

into whether or not they accept a student.

They thought that they were being pro-diversity by not including the score.

Turns out that the scores were actually really, really helpful for students in less than ideal situations by

impressing Dartmouth and other institutions about their capabilities and what they

could bring to the institution. So good on Dartmouth for changing it and an interesting revelation there as well.

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