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...Slack said yesterday the tests required by Harvard and most four-year colleges are "remarkably arrogant, terribly unreliable, and culturally biased," and added he would like to see high school students unite to end standardized college and graduate school entrance examinations through a boycott...
Several Harvard admissions officers said yesterday that although they sympathized with some of Slack's criticisms, the benefits of the tests outweigh their faults...
...Slack said high scores on the college boards and good grades in college correlate because colleges use the same criteria and biases as the entrance exams...
Lois Royce, spokesman for the college board, said Slack's "wide ranging and bold assertions" showed he did not know much about the testing industry...
Royce said Slack ignored the facts in calling ETS, a non-profit corporation, a "big business," but Slack said the salaries and assets of the corporation showed "lots of non-profit profits...