Will Harvard Make the SAT Optional?

That's certainly what this coverage of a new educational report suggests may be around the corner. Essentially, the people on the committee, which includes Harvard's President, have said that schools should de-emphasize the SAT because of the ways in which it is possible for affluent students to "game" the test and the ways in which such standardized tests tend to skew only along socio-economic lines. In other words, the only thing the SAT and ACT are accurately predicting is a student's socio-economic background; things like future performance in college do not correlate.

I think Harvard, in particular, has adopted some very stellar moves, lately, as they did when they dropped and lowered tuition for many students to make college affordable. Now, their push to end the heavy reliance on standardized testing could very well be an 'industry-killer'. The industry I have in mind? The $ billion+ test-prep industry, which is one of the fastest growing and most profitable in the country.