March 5, 2004
Sorry Mr. Shakespeare, but Have You Considered Trade School?
The Bard would have bombed on the new SAT writing test.
So argues the Princeton Review, a test-preparation company, in an article titled, "Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?," which appears in the March issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
In the cheeky literary stunt, the Princeton Review evaluated the writing of famous authors according to the same standards the College Board will use to grade essays on the revamped SAT, set to debut next year. They noted that Shakespeare's
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