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More colleges move toward optional SATs

cnn.com — Nearly 760 institutions have made a step in this direction, advocacy group says. Schools say SAT is biased against students who can't afford preparation

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  • jdigg06, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1Great. Now anyone can get into college, and soon they'll be suing because they can't read or add 2 plus 2 and feel discriminated against.
    • phuture84, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I think it is more that people feel discriminated against because they couldn't afford prep courses/books. yes, if you can't read you have no business going to college until you get that sorted out. However, basing one's ability to attend a university on an exam whose scores have been statistically shown to correlate to parental income is ridiculous. Anyone could get a good score if they could hire a tutor, buy prep books, etc. Believe it or not, some people can't afford the $30 study guide.
      Education is the one thing that I strongly believe in socializing, for two reasons. First, it makes absolutely no sense to base someones future off of their parents' income. Just because your parents are poor and you went to a sub-par inner-city school that means you can't go to college? Please. And even if you do well at that type of school, you won't be able to afford current college tuition. I come from a middle class family and still have a ton of loans. So, poor people are blocked doubly from college just for not having money. Second, it makes economic sense. Everyone knows that an educated person will almost all of the time make more money than an uneducated person. So, by subsidizing college there will be more educated citizens than there otherwise would be, thus making more people capable of holding better jobs. This will only increase the national GDP and will be a cyclic process building upon itself.
  • dafragsta, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1I got my degree at Costco!
  • djcap, on 05/31/2008, -0/+1If we focus on the SAT as only a number we miss the point. The SAT/ACT is used by most colleges as a tool to evaluate an applicant's GPA: a lower SAT score with a high GPA (with rigorous course load) will reflect well on the applicant, while a lower GPA with a high SAT score raises a red flag.
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