09.22.08 | SAT scores not required?
Personally I bombed the SAT’s. I don’t do very well with standardized testing. I mean, whose standards are they anyway? Perhaps my son won’t have to too take them by the time he is ready for college.
Recent debate has been raised over whether the scholastic aptitude test (SAT) is really necessary.
William R. Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard, conducted a year long study and found that standardized testing can not possibly measure someone’s true worth or ability. He cited backgrounds and the contrast in opportunities that some students are granted in upscale suburban high schools.
Furthermore, parents continue to pay a lot of money for students to take prep classes which are only preparing them for the test and not teaching them how to learn Fitzsimmons said.
A growing number of colleges, including Smith College in Massachusetts and Bates College in Maine, have made the SAT and ACT exams optional.
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