Emphasis should be placed on testing achievement on a wide variety of subjects. The significance of Atkinson's decision is that for someone of his stature from such a heralded institution to take this step gives legitimacy to the entire anti-SAT movement. There are those institutions that will require the test as long as it is offered. Harvard, for instance, regularly turns away students who have scored the maximum or near it on their SATs and., thus, has no concern. But these elite private schools also long have compensated by fostering enrollment diversity.
Race is a serious part of their admission process.
Everyone has a favorite SAT horror story. She was accepted at a distinguished sister school that didn't misuse the SATs this way and graduated summa cum laude in chemical engineering. It's time to stop this nonsense. Comment by clicking here.