[Old North State]

There is one point in Murry's analysis that I find dubious, that of the SAT's predictive capability. The SAT has become less predictive because most college curricula have been expanded and dumbed down so far. A body above room room temperature can get a high GPA in some of these cooked up academic disciplines.
College admission is the prize in a competition for scarce resources so there will be winners and losers, period, so the selection criteria must be as objective as possible. If the SAT is abandoned I fear more use of subjective criteria like 'life circumstances', which are intellectually meaningless.

[RKV]

Murray proposes other current objective measures rather than the SAT (e.g. SATII and AP). Basically, its a matter of using multiple tests to measure what is essentially the same thing. Why duplicate?