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More than 800 four-year colleges do not require the SAT or the ACT for admission.<ref>http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional</ref>
 
More than 800 four-year colleges do not require the SAT or the ACT for admission.<ref>http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional</ref>
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== Dumbing Down the Test ==
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The SAT is periodically dumbed down, such it becomes increasingly easy in order to accommodate underachieving students, such as removing analogies in 2005 and penalties for wrong answers in 2014. It thereby becomes nearly impossible to differentiate students at the high end of the spectrum:<ref>https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/opinion/the-college-board-is-dumbing-down-its-sat-again-test-doing-no-one-any-favors/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons</ref>
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{{cquote|Thus, at least half of Harvard students’ SAT math scores lie in the narrow 10-point range between 790 and 800, well within the SAT’s standard error of measurement, so that the SAT in effect says they scored the same.}}
    
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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