Does the SAT help students who are not members of an “academic elite?
” The SAT identifies able students from every race and stratum of society with no reference to family, academic, or professional connections. The belief that the curriculum and standards of American education are set by a privileged elite in order to keep others from achieving them is ironic in a nation devoted to the democratization of educational opportunity. In fact, colleges introduced the SAT to eliminate unfair barriers to higher education based on privilege, to give all students an equal opportunity to demonstrate their academic abilities regardless of income, class, connections, or social status. The SAT continues to expand opportunity. More first-generation college students take it every year.
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