An SAT Comeback in College Admissions? Don’t Believe the Hype 

By Joseph Williams | Word In Black (WIB) – When Ivy League universities joined hundreds of other schools in dropping  SAT and ACT scores as admission requirements in recent years, it seemed the high-stakes tests were going the way of pay phones and videocassette tapes. Last week, however, Dartmouth College became the third influential school this year, along with Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to bring back the SAT as a requirement for admission — and some experts believe others could soon follow suit. Between schools’ backtracking and a recent high-profile study (covered in The New York Times) suggesting standardized tests actually don’t harm college diversity, testing proponents say predictions of its demise are premature.  READ MORE:& Culturally Blind Standardized Tests? More Like Culturally Biased But a& new report& released in late February by FairTest pushes back, arguing that the tests — which multiple studies show are biased against Black students — aren’t poised for a widespread comeback.& “A few colleges who are obsessed with elitism and ranking and sorting, who are more interested in finding the students who need the least education in order to claim success, have returned to a metric that allows them to sort...