Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
The 1k+ comment count speaks for itself, but it's hard to overstate the importance of this decision. Maybe the wind has changed on some very lofty peaks.<p>My opinion has always been that the SAT/ACT is the best method we currently have to achieve any reasonable goals that you might have for an admissions process, with one possible exception. In fact the SAT/ACT looks to me like a better method to achieve the aims that the anti-SAT faction claims they're fighting for, than any other method on the table, again with one exception. As such I'm delighted with this decision.<p>(Sure, you could spend a lot of time and money designing a test that's even better calibrated than the SAT/ACT, and then switch to that. Until you've done that, I'm in favour of sticking with the SAT/ACT.)<p>The one exception is if you want a quota-based affirmative action program (or, to be more precise, a back door to get around the legal ban on an openly quota-based admissions system in the US). It is possible for two people to disagree on whether this is a good thing while both of them remain decent human beings, as far as I'm concerned.