In defense of standardized testing

<p>Many eons ago when I was a student rep on the architecture school admissions committee at Columbia I read the application of a kid with dyslexia. He had abyssmal GRE scores, decent grades, a nice portfolio and stellar recommendations all of which told us to ignore the GRE score. In the end we did, but it bothered me, that I had no way of really knowing how having dyslexia might impact his architectural work.</p>