<p>Good lord fastmed, your arrogance is ridiculous. And your non sequitor tangent on “perfect” chinese applicants was quite humorous. Reminds me of the dinosaur riding nazi in Dilbert. Get a clue.</p>
<p>It is dissapointing to see the hopes and dreams of students discouraged or crushed by a simple test. But with that being said, I disagree as to the fairness or stress placed on students by such tests. It really doesn’t get much better than America for college placement; in other places, you’d have to be in the top 1% of 1% of 1%…you know what I mean, just to get an oppurtunity to suceed. And the SAT is fair. In fact, it is even more fair for the privileged, private school type. And most importantly, only you place pressure on yourself (I know, very cliche). But still, if you can’t do it, you just can’t do it. I don’t mean to sound crass, but that’s just too bad.</p>