UC President Napolitano recommends dropping the SAT, ACT tests

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10. I agree with your post

Having just gone through this with my daughter starting college in the fall.

We had a college advisor explain the reasoning behind the "test-optional" schools. It sounds like an accommodation to kids that test poorly but it is definitely an advantage to the schools to move up the rankings.

There are a lot of problems in the system for college admission but they are trying to deal with even greater issues in the high school system as a whole. Removing the only broad measure of comparing kids won't change the structural differences in why those kids have had differing educational experiences to begin with. The best they can do is take it under consideration and give additional weight to those other environmental factors.