<p>I have a hunch that Darth got a poor SAT score / had a few retakes and now is ranting about his unfortunate experiences, by channeling his anger at the SAT.</p>
<p>Put yourself in the perspective of a college admission officer at Brown. Almost every application is above a 3.7 Unweighted, and that is WITH a ton of AP and Honors, ECs, blah blah…with the except of a few (like one guy won a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad), all of them look almost the same. However, SAT is a aptitude test, and when colleges see that students with similar apps have vastly different SAT scores…say one has a 2300 on one try and another has a 2100 with 3 tries superscored…it might say something about the person’s verbal and reasoning abilities, and doing things right in a short time.</p>
<p>Also one more thing, Collegeboard is essentially a business. How CAN they not make a load of $$, even as a ““nonprofit organization”” with all the prep books they sell alone? Whichever people runs collegeboard are very smart, because even if they know that the SAT might be a fraud, they’re milking the test for all its worth, until the SAT gets taken down, replaced by the rising ACT, whatever. </p>
<p>In any case, Collegeboard is very good at making (or leeching, if you like to call it) money and profiting from students, and we can’t blame them for that. I mean after all, almost every company is out to make some decent cash and I’m sure Collegeboard is no exception.</p>