June 8, 2001
How Admissions Tests Hinder Access to Graduate and Professional Schools
University of California President Richard C. Atkinson rattled cages across academe recently when he formally proposed that the university system scuttle the SAT as an undergraduate-admissions requirement. Atkinson's move was the right one at the right time for the nation's most populous and diverse state. But his proposal is not bold enough.
Consider Atkinson's reasons for dumping the SAT. First, he argued, the so-called SAT I -- which the Educational Testing Service has described as
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