{"id":196046,"date":"2008-05-27T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/wake-forest-drops-sat-requirement\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:14:00","slug":"wake-forest-drops-sat-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/wake-forest-drops-sat-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Forest drops SAT Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking as someone who did fairly well on my SAT, I find <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j-BfVt55J79pafO0BVJ6BpgI7U7QD90TUEHG0\">the increasing number of schools who have dropped the SAT (and ACT)<\/a> to be a welcome development.<\/p>\n<p>Filling in little bubbles with a number 2 pencil has very little to do with the quality of one&#8217;s mind, and the Kaplan prep courses mean that rich kids whose parents can drop a grand are basically gaming the test, and the system, to their own advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking as someone who did fairly well on my SAT, I find the increasing number of schools who have dropped the SAT (and ACT) to be a welcome development. Filling in little bubbles with a number 2 pencil has very little to do with the quality of one&#8217;s mind, and the Kaplan prep courses mean &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}