An Inconvenient Test

The problem with the SAT is that it doesn’t produce the racial outcomes that the people who run institutions of higher education want.

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Pages of an SAT college-entrance exam preparation book in Melville, N.Y., in 2017.

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The long era of the dominance of the SAT in college admissions is coming to an end.

The test is increasingly being shelved not because it failed, but because it succeeded in all the wrong ways.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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