Will SAT Prep Courses Be Necessary In The Future?
You have been trying to decide whether or not to shell out all that money on one of those SAT prep courses. Have you heard the latest? Some top colleges are now making SAT scores optional.
Brown University is one of them. This is a top-shelf Ivy League school! The University of California is another. Here’s what William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions at Harvard, told The New York Times this month. That “subject tests were the best predictor of good grades at Harvard, high school grade point average was second and the SAT was third.”
Why are colleges starting to do this? Are they starting to see the unfairness of it? Affluent High Schools are offering free SAT prep courses while poorer schools barely mention it. And it is supposed to predict success in the first year of college, but does it really?
This could be a future indicator, but at the present most schools admissions still use High School grades, SAT scores and extracurricular activities as factors to be weighed. Still, it may be something to consider before enrolling in SAT prep courses.
