"Providence College made news a while back because it's are one of the
first top-tier schools to have stopped requiring SAT scores. My
question is why? Is it because it's not fair to those who don't test
well? Isn't that really just punishing those who do test well? I had
believed that the point of requiring the SAT was to ensure that the
students a college accepts are well-rounded. They asked for the GPA to
check if you had a work ethic, and then they checked the SAT to test
your basic reasoning skills.
And you know what else? The SAT works. I scored very poorly on the math
section of my SAT because I'm not very good at math, and I was too lazy
to try and do better. I have to live with that, and I had to deal with
the consequences. If a person scores poorly on the verbal section
because he or she watched MTV instead of picking up a book, then so be
it. Those who are going to college know the game and know the rules, so
it is up to them to find their way. Why should a college have to change
their criteria to cater to anyone?
Dropping the SAT is Un-American
A conservative columnist for American University's The Eagle thinks testing serves an American purpose: it helps define winners and losers.
