Why the End of SAT Subject Tests Marked a Sad Day in the History of College Admissions
(WIth this past weekend’s SAT exam, the news originally reported in this post back in January is now official. The optional SAT Essay section and optional SAT Subject Tests—aka Subject Tests and Achievement Tests—are in the ground. Thought we’d run it again out of respect.) Please note this post’s title doesn’t say bad, it says sad. Bad is a normative term; it judges. And no one can say for sure whether the next 20 to 50 years will judge the overall impact of dropping Subject Tests as “good” or “bad.” Moreover, it may well prove a bad decision educationally (that’s […]
