SATs are limited

The Scholastic Aptitude Test supposedly evaluates a student’s readiness for their education after high school. When taken, the score achieved is scrutinized by every college to which a student applies. Although the SAT provides a proficient widespread test for getting into college, it is not an accurate or fair way to perceive students’ abilities, because it inhibits creativity and does not show students’ work ethic and personality.

Something that the SAT does not allow a student to show is creativity. The SAT is an assessment similar to an IQ test, which measures logic. The entire right side of the brain is overlooked. The part that imagines, creates, and forms one’s personality is completely abandoned, forgotten in the shove to test students’ raw knowledge.

Particularly frustrating, the SAT shows nothing of a student’s work ethic. The student could be the hardest worker and the most willing to achieve success, yet if he or she does poorly on the test, colleges merely glance at the score and move on.

For these reasons, it is imperative that a better alternative to the SAT on which colleges base their acceptance is discovered.

Claire Organick

Spokane