<p>Relativistic arguments, that one shouldn’t complain because it could be worse, are nonsense. If something is wrong, it is wrong regardless of whatever “worse” wrong exists. </p>
<p>That said, the SAT is just convenient for colleges to use. If something should prove more cost effective/useful then the SAT will be history.</p>
<p>Ziggi, this move toward making the ACT mendatory in Michigan is recent. Ever since I can remember, the Midwest has not taken the concept of SAT prep courses very seriously. Midwestern students simply don’t bother with the SAT as much. They don’t take prep courses, they don’t prepare as hard for it, they don’t take it as many times as their Western or Eastern counterparts and the majority of state universities around them don’t really care for the results of the SAT. The same applies for the ACT. Standardized tests just don’t get the same respect among Midwesterners as it does among Easterners or Westerners.</p>
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<p>I never said that you should not be able to complain if something is wrong. What I am saying is that you shouldn’t give up just because something is wrong. And that is what has been stated here - the notion that just because I was born poor and circumstances are unfair, I am just going to give up. It’s that defeatism that is a problem.</p>