The Tests Simply Aren't Needed to Recruit Good Students

GPAs are clearly impacted on so many levels by forces outside of a student's intelligence. SATs are impacted by these things as well but much less so than GPAs. The best solution would be to make the SATs much harder to where the advantages of tutoring and financial/family advantage would be negligible. In my own opinion most people who want to do away with SATs are those who are simply not as intelligent as their GPAs make them out to be. People who in my own opinion have gone beyond wanting to cheat the education system, to wanting to redesign it to shut out the truly intelligent people and let in the mindless majority. It is very easy to cheat through high school with tutors, parental help, lack of outside responsibilities, flattery, etc. For people like myself from broken homes, who worked a lot in high school and had serious survival needs to deal with, a standardized test is a blessing and the one piece of paper that is undeniable proof I'm not an idiot. And now people want to cheat others like me out of it, so they can officially shut us out of the system and call stupid people brilliant and smart people idiots. At the end of the day, a student with a very high SAT score and a low GPA, is much brighter than one with poor SAT scores and a high GPA. However these people are of course vastly outnumbered which is the only reason we don't come to the logical conclusion that standardized tests should be the only criteria for college admissions. The only people who seem to have a problem with the SATs are advantaged kids who are confronted with the fact that it is something they can't use to misrepresent their intelligence on paper, so they can get jobs they are not qualified for and success they don't deserve. Or disadvantaged people without innate intelligence who are looking to blame outside forces. As far as SAT scores not being an accurate measurement of college success, I'd argue that is a problem with the colleges themselves not the students. Musical ability, social skills etc have nothing to do with a strong logical ability which is the glue that holds all of society together. School is about book smarts, anything else has its proper place elsewhere. Society should be based around IQ intelligence since it is what gets things done at the end of the day. Most of societies problems stem from these weaknesses in the education system that are the basis for providing wealth and power to people who are genetically intellectually inferior, over naturally brilliant minds. Everything gets dumbed down to accommodate the average man, at the expense of the intelligent. And you end up with average people running around as if they are brilliant and their opinions are beyond debate. If you don't think that is a disastrous problem, just take a look around at the country you live in and the problems we are facing. The education system has become just one more system manipulated for political reasons. The real problem with the SATs of course is that it hurts people's precious feelings, and forces them to move out of candyland and back to reality to take a realistic look at their own abilities and limitation. And we can't have that in America because then people won't feel special and we couldn't run around anymore talking as if we are brilliant while acting like morons.