<p>" Your proposition clearly doesn’t hold true in all cases."</p>
<p>What matters is that it holds in most cases.</p>
<p>student14x, whether you or I like to believe it or not, the rich will always have the advantage. Not just the SAT, everything in life will come easier to the rich the rich than to the lower classes. </p>
<p>Anyway, I say keep the SAT because it really is goddamn easy. The math is elementary, the reading is a simple process of elimination for the most part, and the writing is just memorization of rules. We should be happy that the SAT is so easy compared to the tests that high school students in other countries have to take to get into good colleges.</p>
<p>“Not everyone can get SAT tutoring or attend a good high school. Why should people be punished further for that? They shouldn’t.”</p>
<p>Believe it or not, colleges do care a lot about social justice (lower academic requirements for URMs, low income students, etc). But at some point, colleges need students who can go there and take advantage of the educations provided there. If students have subpar academic abilities, which the SAT will show, then what good will a Harvard or a Yale do them?</p>
<p>I don’t get it…it seems much closer to a test of intelligence than anything else…grades are a mix of intelligence and work ethic, the amount of time one is willing to put towards getting an A in a class</p>
<p>There are contrary statements here about whether high SAT scores are the result of work (in “prep courses” as some posters claim) or not. It’s plain enough to me that high SAT scores are the result of work, and thus show “work ethic,” in roughly the same way that high school grades do, but with the added advantage that they don’t show the results of undue influence on the persons giving the grades. That’s why I expect standardized test scores of some kind to continue to be used by most college admission committees.</p>
<p>Somehow I get the feeling that most people not happy with the SAT/ACT wanted to attend an Ivy League school and feel slighted that their scores don’t measure. I would love to run the 100m dash at the Olympics, but my times don’t even qualify for county honors.</p>