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...policy, known as Proposition 16, required the athletes to have a minimum score of 820 on the Scholastic Assessment Test regardless of their high school grades. The ruling did not rule out some use of the tests, which many educators have long said are racially and culturally discriminatory...
Last night in Boylston Hall, over 40 Harvard students listened to two speakers discuss the fairness of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its overall weight upon college admissions at an event sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
...require the admissions testing game is a distortion of the educational process--it reinforces societal discrimination," Schaeffer said. "[Placing] importance on test scores deters otherwise qualified applicants from applying to colleges...
...preparatory courses like the Princeton Review and Kaplan are also give wealthier students an unfair advantage, according to Schaeffer. Preparatory courses like these are "steroids to boost test scores," he said...
...offered positive feedback from colleges who do not require the SAT and said that these schools report that they like the students better who are chosen without test scores...