<p>What comes out of these presentations may be something of interest to watch for. Then again, it might be all fluff and no peanut butter. </p>
<p>April 1, 2009</p>
<p>Wake Forest University, the first top-30 national university to make the SAT optional for applicants, is bringing together admissions officers and leading researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Texas, Virginia, Yale and other prestigious universities for a candid discussion of college admissions practices and the role that standardized testing plays in the process. The conference, Rethinking Admissions, will be held on the Wake Forest campus on April 15 and 16, 2009, and is open to the public. For more information, visit [WFU</a> | Rethinking Admissions](<a href=“http://www.wfu.edu/rethinkingadmissions]WFU”>About the Conference - Rethinking Admissions (2009)).</p>
<p>Among other things being discussed -</p>
<p>Predictive power of the SAT
and</p>
<p>Admissions officers from Harvard, Duke and Wake Forest will join with their counterpart from Spelman College, one of the nations oldest African American universities, to reveal how they make decisions about who gets accepted and how they identify creative leaders and problem-solvers.</p>