There was a story on the news this morning about a high school in NY where several kids were paying up to $3,500 for other recent grads to take the SAT for them. As crazy as this sounds, I am sure that this happens all over the country. The goal of the SAT is to measure how a prospective student will perform in college. Each college as a minimum score and a average score for the students. My SAT score was good, but not great.
To be honest, admissions at the "Dub" have gotten so hard that I am not sure that I would get in on my score if I applied today. Now, does that mean that I would not be as good of a student? No. What has happened is that college has become a must. This has caused the number of applications to rise faster than the capacity of the schools. The schools then have to tighten the standards to control the student population. This is very logical.
The bigger question in this situation is, why should we make kids believe if they cannot hit the numbers on their own, that they will be coined a "loser"? I am sure that there are many college programs and on-line programs that would not have the admissions requirements that a big name school has. Besides, have you ever heard of a job applicant getting turned down because their business degree was from an on-line university vs UNC? I know a UNC business grad that graduated the same year I graduated from Wilmington. I got a job as a Loan Officer and he was pushing washers at Sears.
The point is your integrity is far more important than scoring high on a standardized test. If the temptation of ignoring your moral compass to too great, remember Shelf is watching and he will tell Santa!
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ---e. e. cummings
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