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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4301785, member: 6696"] My overall point was that while standardized tests are not a good measure of a student's ability to do well in college, the other things we look at are also deeply flawed. Just as flawed--probably more. And they certainly tell you more than that a kid "can take a test"--the skills being tested are rather important. I rarely see a kid have a score on the SAT that I couldn't have predicted from classwork. It is, quite literally, the closest thing to an objective measure of a kid's intelligence we have. The articles from MIT on why they reinstituted mandatory testing for admission should be a good read for you. If we're going to have a bunch of flawed measures to try to figure out which kids to admit, we should be using as many as possible to get a more complete picture. [/QUOTE]