The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) has played a vital role in colleges’ selection process. At one time the SAT was held at great value in the scholastic world and students spent months preparing understanding their scores impact on their future. However, the SAT has proved to be in an inadequate measure of a student’s success in future academic endeavors and colleges are beginning to make submitting scores optional. The SAT needs to be abolished as a requirement for college admission because it is a misleading measure of intelligence. The SAT is deceiving because it strives to measure intelligence by assessing test-taking skills. The SAT is a strategy built test, and if a student does not have a test taking technique that they can
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Students with low GPAs have a second chance to prove their academic ability to colleges through the SAT. However, a student’s GPA is more representative of the chances of them being successful and graduating. GPA measures longevity, the ability for students to be successful over an extended period of time. The SAT just simply shows a students’ ability to be successful in a four hour sitting. The SAT however strives to test all high school students on a standardized test despite their prior academic success or failure. The questions are structured to level the playing field for everyone, preventing any particular type of student from having an advantage and pointing out schools lacking in academia success. The SAT although strives to make everything equal only pinpoints the inevitable disadvantages and advantages offered to students either enrolled in different courses or live in different areas. In addition, it is said that the sat writing portion helps colleges learn more about potential students. For example. College admissions expert Allen Grove stated that “some colleges also use the SAT writing score to place students in the appropriate first-year writing class. A high score will sometimes place a student out of college writing altogether” (Grove). The SAT writing portion is a horrible representation of anyone’s writing …show more content…
GPA, extracurricular activities, personal essays, AP test scores, and community service participation are the only factors that should be considered when deciding if a student is likely to be successful at a particular
Students with low GPAs have a second chance to prove their academic ability to colleges through the SAT. However, a student’s GPA is more representative of the chances of them being successful and graduating. GPA measures longevity, the ability for students to be successful over an extended period of time. The SAT just simply shows a students’ ability to be successful in a four hour sitting. The SAT however strives to test all high school students on a standardized test despite their prior academic success or failure. The questions are structured to level the playing field for everyone, preventing any particular type of student from having an advantage and pointing out schools lacking in academia success. The SAT although strives to make everything equal only pinpoints the inevitable disadvantages and advantages offered to students either enrolled in different courses or live in different areas. In addition, it is said that the sat writing portion helps colleges learn more about potential students. For example. College admissions expert Allen Grove stated that “some colleges also use the SAT writing score to place students in the appropriate first-year writing class. A high score will sometimes place a student out of college writing altogether” (Grove). The SAT writing portion is a horrible representation of anyone’s writing …show more content…
GPA, extracurricular activities, personal essays, AP test scores, and community service participation are the only factors that should be considered when deciding if a student is likely to be successful at a particular