June 20, 2003

Ability to Retake the SAT Skews the Results Against Low-Income Students, Study Suggests

Is allowing college applicants to retake the SAT as many times as they like unfair to low-income students?

A report on a study published earlier this year by researchers at Duke University attempted to answer that question by examining the role that college admissions policies play in promoting the retaking of the SAT.

Because most selective colleges take into account only an applicant's highest verbal and mathematics SAT scores, many students take the $28.50 test more than

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