Is the SAT Done For?

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🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Colleges are dropping the SAT as a requirement in their admissions process, citing studies that what the test measures best is simply how well you’ve prepared for the test. But the question at the heart of the matter remains: how do you create a fair and equitable college admissions process? And can a test-optional system help foster a more equal playing field when there’s still so much inequality built into our school systems? Guest: Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, senior reporter at Higher Ed Dive. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:08.4	Boring, just white boxes.
0:10.2	Well, we can decorate an old liquor painted in there.
0:12.4	Hmm.
0:13.4	Like a nice shade of grey.
0:15.2	We are not having grey walls.
0:16.9	Why not?
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0:26.8	For more information, search Halifax first-time buyer events.
0:30.2	So Jeremy, if I was going to ask you what your SAT scores were, would you remember them?
0:41.9	I certainly would.
0:44.5	Do you want to share?
0:48.4	So yes, I got an 1800 and unfortunately the mathematics score dragged me down.
0:55.4	Jeremy Bauerwolf reports on college admissions for higher ed dive.
0:59.7	And I promise I was not asking him to tell me his SAT scores just so I could clown him.
1:06.2	When you got your SAT score, did you feel some kind of way about it?
1:09.0	Were you like, eww.
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