The_SAT_Controversy

The SAT Controversy The SAT Controversy 1) According to the video and the article, who and how was the SAT developed and for what purpose' The SAT, or as it was called in the beginning, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, had its debut in the late 1930’s. In 1933, a gentleman by the name of James Bryant Conant became the president of Harvard University. At the time he became president, only the elite in the area were admitted into Harvard. This distinct social group was all male, all white, all Protestant, most Episcopalian. They basically were descendents of the Puritans who had come from Europe. These were decent people but they had formed a very closed group, almost a club, and controlled everything. James Conant was not particularly fond of this group and he wanted to unlock the hold they had not only on Harvard but on all of America. He had a vision, which actually originated with Thomas Jefferson, that there were people across America who were very intelligent, very talented, and very successful and you needed to find them, educate them and then let them run the country. His goal was a classless society. However, sat, test, college, school, high, schools, harvard, very, students, however, conant, student, scores, courses, chauncey, admissions, way, tests, people, needed, grades, education, using, testing, predictors, important, group, gpa, first, evaluate, come, colleges, among, alone, after