<p>I don’t have such a problem with the idea that you can retake the SAT. We all have bad days. But there’s been a huge change in attitude since most of us were young, when generally people took it once at the end of junior year with the idea that if they messed up, they could retake as a senior. I only had one friend who did that, and yes, it was pretty clear she should have scored better. Now, there’s a culture of take, take, and take again. I think it’s just wrong that you can pay money to have parts of your record suppressed, and that people are being encouraged by the college board to use the inherent variability of these tests to their advantage, and to pay them to do so.</p>