<p>I personally don’t consider this a “good” thing.</p>
<p>To me, it is a lowering of standards.</p>
<p>They probably want to admit kids who have the ability to pay full freight, but those kids don’t have high enough SAT scores.</p>
<p>And/or perhaps they want to admit more minorities to achieve diversity, but those kids sometimes don’t score high enough on the SAT either.</p>
<p>It is one thing to place less emphasis on the SAT. It is quite another to say that you don’t even have to take it.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding the recent anti-SAT trend, it is my experience that someone with a 2300 SAT is indeed a lot smarter than someone with a 1900 SAT.</p>