Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 8:59pm

SAT is irrelevant as criterion for admission

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Guest Column
Published Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Unlike in “ATM,” “RSVP” and “PB&J,” the letters in “SAT” do not stand for anything. The College Board may have changed the name from “Scholastic Aptitude Test” to just “SAT” 13 years ago because they knew that SAT scores are about as good a measurement of students’ “scholastic aptitude” as their parents’ tax returns are.
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