<p>I am not going to share poor me stories to prove a point. Did your friend have it horrible? Yes. Is that the only possible scenario that could be devastating? No. Honestly I am surprised your friend cared about the SAT’s but that is him and not me. My family had a plan for our education but it did not include taking the SAT’s. We had bigger things to worry about even if there was not a national scale war happening to us. We all (except for my sister) started at community college. My oldest brother is now a lawyer with his own firm and my other brother is in law school at the moment. My sister received her masters and is a teacher. I plan on getting my MBA. By not taking the SAT’s we were not selling ourselves short or thinking we weren’t capable. We just knew that was not a possible path for us. We have been successful anyway. :)</p>