From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Starting in 2010, Students Can Select the SAT Scores That Reach Colleges
The College Board is going to increase the amount of control students have over which SAT scores college-admissions officers can see, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The new policy, which was announced on Friday and is scheduled to take effect with the high-school class of 2010, will let students take the test multiple times and select those scores that they want to reach admissions officers. Now colleges get all of the scores but are supposed to take into account only the highest ones. Laurence Bunin, a senior vice president of the College Board and general manager of its SAT program, said in a letter to members of the organization that colleges could still set their own policies on whether to require applicants to send all of their scores.
Critics say the new policy will stack the test in favor of students from families with enough money to take the test repeatedly. But Mr. Bunin said the new flexibility was intended to make the testing experience less stressful for all students. —David L. Wheeler
