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Article: SAT: the SAT got him into Harvard from a small Iowa town. But now, Charles Murray wants to abolish the test. It's unnecessary and, worse, a negative force in American life.(scholastic aptitude test)
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- The American (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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FOR MOST HIGH school students who want to attend an elite college, the SAT is more than a test. It is one of life's landmarks. Waiting for the scores--one for verbal, one for math, and now one for writing, with a possible 800 on each--is painfully suspenseful. The exact scores are commonly remembered forever after.
So it has been for half a century. But events of recent years have challenged the SAT's position. In 2001, Richard Atkinson, president of the University of California, proposed dropping the SAT as a requirement for admission. More and more prestigious small colleges, such as Middlebury and Bennington, are making the SAT optional. The charge that the ...