Should a Nobel laureate be required to take the SATs? [View all]

[diabeticman]

http://news.yahoo.com/nobel-laureate-required-sats-194834463.html


Even the world’s youngest Nobel laureate needs to ace her SATs if she wants to get into Stanford.


Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who won the Nobel Peace Prize after standing up for girls’ education against the Taliban, is preparing to go to college. She has named Stanford one of her top choices, but the university will require her to submit her SAT scores, CBS News reported, before she can compete with more than 40,000 other applicants for the 2,000 or so first-year spots.

The requirement has once more highlighted the paramount role of standardized testing in the US educational system – though some universities no longer require score submissions from college applicants, as The Christian Science Monitor's Beatrice Gitau reported in July.

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Maybe it is wrong to think this but perhaps --when it comes to Malala-- Any college or University should be honored to have her as a student.