July 6, 2001

Admissions Tests: Not Perfect, Just the Best Measures We Have

By PHILIP D. SHELTON

Peter Sacks argues that graduate and professional schools should reconsider their use of standardized tests, in the same way that the University of California system is engaged in a review of its use of the SAT I ("How Admissions Tests Hinder Access to Graduate and Professional Schools," June 8, The Review). There is much in his argument with which to agree: Merit, however defined, surely means more than performance on a standardized test; tests cannot tell admissions committees who will be

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