The College Board, an independent agency affiliated with the ETS, will decide by March 31 if the same policy will apply to SAT scores. Director of Harvard Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '73 said she is not concerned about receiving scores that have been taken under special conditions but are not denoted as such. She said that the potential change in score-reporting would not affect the College's admission process.
Tests play a useful, but limited, role in our selection.
A high school administrator at Harvard-Westlake, a prestigious private school in California which routinely sends students to Harvard College, said yesterday he was concerned that untimed test scores will now pass unnoticed when students are considered for admission. McGrath Lewis said she thinks Gragg's response is unfounded. McGrath Lewis said the Harvard admissions office views grades as a more important factor than tests when considering a candidate for admission. The ETS announcement follows a recent court settlement in a California suit filed two years ago by a physically disabled man who believes his failure to be accepted to business school was the result of his flagged scores. One Web site.