Colleges Making SAT/ACT Optional

Junior year of High School was probably the busiest of the four.  While focusing on classes, you needed to think about college, transcripts and oh yeah, SATs.  A growing number of students are taking more and more time away from their school studies to study with tutors on how to correctly guess on the SATs.   This article from the New York Times states that popular schools such as Bates College and Wake Forest University have made the SATs and ACTs optional.  In an interview, William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard University states that "it would be better for our country to have students focusing on high school courses that, based on evidence, will prepare them well for college and also prepare them well for the real world beyond college, instead of spending enormous amounts of time trying to game the SAT."