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...test's sponsors found that some students viewed aptitude as a genetic quality, casting the SAT as a kind of annual experiment in eugenics. "That was a misconception," says Janice Gams, spokeswoman for the College Board, an association of 3,200 high schools and colleges that oversees the exam. Hence the test is now simply called...
...these days it's facing more than just an identity crisis. Rarely have those who revile the exam--including many of the 1 million students who take it each year--had so much to celebrate: because of new state prohibitions against affirmative action, public universities in California and Texas are struggling to find ways to remain racially diverse. One solution: scrap SATs, since minorities score worse, on average, than whites. The University of California is considering a proposal by its Latino Eligibility Task Force to eliminate SATs from admissions decisions in order to boost Latino enrollment. Public universities in Texas...
...summers ago, an international graduate student from Moscow, Dmitry V. Podhopaev, committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of Holyoke Center. A year before, Sinedu Tadessi '96, an undergraduate from Ethiopia, killed her roommate and then herself at the close of spring exam period...
When George H. "Troy" Durham III '99 transferred to Harvard from the University of Utah, he discovered the College did not have a language placement exam in Portuguese, a language placement exam in Portuguese, a language Durham spoke fluently after living in Portugal for two years...
...after meeting last fall with Smith Professor of Language and Literature Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, the Romance Languages Department's undergraduate advisor in Portuguese, Durham took a special exam and placed out of the language requirement...