How Admissions Tests Hinder Access to Graduate and Professional Schools

By PETER SACKS

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.

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