<p>“who pushed for the SAT to add writing”?</p>
<p>That is easy to answer, Richard C. Atkinson, president (at that time) of University of California. One of his motive was that he found out the that his 6th grade granddaughter was memorizing vocabulary for the SAT analogies. He was appalled. He and UC never liked the SAT I. So he and UC threatened that unless SAT 1 is overhauled with less emphasis on vocabulary and add a essay component, UC would stop requiring the SAT and college board would lose a big share of clients. So now we have the new SAT.</p>