This reading was very interesting because it was about something that all of us can relate to, the SAT! In the reading Stanley Kaplan, describes how he first encountered the SAT, when tutoring a young girl for it. He was very intrigued by this new test that got students thinking above and beyond just actual facts. This is how he liked to teach his students, so he did very well in tutoring other students for this test and began to make a good living off of tutoring. Kaplan believes that the SAT was the greatest and most efficient way to test students and give everyone even ground in being accepted to college at least on an academic level.
Kaplan argues his point very well with his personal experiences. Where he says that the regular student that he was helping was getting into college without the help of an alumnus parent or being from a donor family. So this gave these regular students and their parents hope that they could go to college.
Even though this was the start of the SAT and many things have changed about the test since this, I agree with Kaplan. It gives everyone a fair chance to get excepted into college and to be considered for certain scholarships. With the SAT scores and the other things that they consider when you are applying to college is the best way and most fair to consider students. Being from a small town I can say that if it I had gone to college back in Kaplan's time I probably wouldn't of known where to start or even think about going to college without the SAT.
"It could help democratize American education by ushering a larger, more diverse group of students into the world of higher education." I picked this line because it explains just how the SAT changed the acceptance of more students. And just how something that we dread and take for granted, could not be there and make it more difficult to get into the college of our choice.
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