Testing, Testing

My two triumphs in the world of academe as a high school letter-winning Lothario were

1. coming in 19th out of 60 on some math contest for which I walked into the wrong room
2. getting a higher SAT score than my smarty-pants girlfriend, who would go to UVa while I pretended to matriculate at the Harvard on the Appomattox. - XMASTIME

Apparently, colleges may soon be doing away with the SAT:

U-Va. and Harvard were among a large bloc of schools that temporarily suspended their requirements for SAT or ACT scores because the public health emergency prevented many college-bound students from taking the exams. Students could choose whether to send scores to these schools under a policy known as “test-optional.”

On Friday, U-Va. President James E. Ryan said the public university will extend its test-optional policy for another two years, covering students who are now sophomores and juniors in high school.

UC-Berkeley has taken a more radical step. It removed the SAT and ACT from admission decisions, a policy known as “test-free” or “test-blind.” A state court last fall ordered the UC system to apply that policy across all its campuses for this year’s applicants. The system’s approach to admission testing for coming years is still in some flux, but the UC governing board voted in the spring to phase out the SAT and ACT.

I'm *guessing* it may make things even easier for the Aunt Beckys of the world to get their kids in elite colleges.