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(and would have to make up the SAT deficiencies with letters of recommendation, extracarriculars, etc.)

You're arguing against your own logic. You are explicitly lowering standards to create opportunity for those that would not otherwise achieve admission.

This is the same exact thing that our public schools do. They teach the classes based on the lowest common denominator. This result in generations of children that "graduate" as functional illiterates - do absolutely AWFUL on the SAT - and then are admitted to colleges because of lowered admission standards.

This is a little off topic, but our society needs to learn that children will aspire to the level of the bar held out for them. And right now, that bar is barely off of the ground.