If you’re a junior in high school, it’s more than likely when come springtime you’re going to be stressing out about college entrance exams. The ACT or SAT, to be more specific. These tests and a variety of others help colleges decide whether you’re fit (aka, smart enough) to go to that particular school. The controversy today is whether those tests are legitimate, and whether they should be used anymore to determine a student’s academic ability for college. You see, there are plenty of us here in high school, and others out in the world, who are terrible test takers, but excellent students and who volunteer their time to the community and are involved in a lot of activities in high school. Then there are the others who only dedicate their time to their studies and are good test takers naturally. They get the easy way out. But for the rest of us poor test takers like me, we are stuck with stressful testing that is not a very legitimate way to indicate whether we are good students or not. I do not believe those types of tests should be used in college admissions anymore. Instead, I think colleges should weigh a student based on how well-rounded they are. I think that would be a much better determination of how good the student is. Not all students are gifted with great smartness and good test taking skills, so I do not think that is how a student should be judged. It just doesn’t seem fair. I know that all colleges want smart, well-rounded students to add to the diversity of the student population. So knowing this, colleges should look more to what defines the student and what they’re good at and all that they’ve done in high school, not what their test results say. I think more students would be accepted into colleges and universities if college admissions would use this criteria instead of what they’re doing now. Because I think everyone deserves an equal chance at good, quality education.
http://www.opposingviews.com/p/nearly-1-000-colleges-no-longer-require-sat-act-scores
http://blog.scholarships.com/tag/act/
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I agree with idea of judging a student on how well rounded they are instead of the SAT and ACT. I too am one of those students not the best at taking test, though I did not get denied from any of the schools I applied to, but I did get denied the ability to apply for scholarships within those universities. The fact that the most important part of getting into to college is a test you take during your junior year is wrong because that does not show the college how you have grown as a student just what you can do during one test. Yes, the test does cover a lot of material but no, it does not express what kind of student you truly are. I limited the colleges I even applied to because of my ACT score but I would have much rather been able to look at my past grades and what I have done throughout high school instead. Taking out the ACT and SAT should be done, not entirely but only as a means of placement for classes for the next year.
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