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Higher Admissions: The Rise and Fall of Standardized Testing

Contributions by Marvin Krislov, Contributions by Prudence Carter, By (author) Nicholas Lemann, Contributions by Patricia GÃ¡ndara

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How to make post-SAT American higher education fairer In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the worldâ€™s first mass higher education systemâ€”and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a â€œmeritocracyâ€ in which admission to selective higher education institutions would be granted to those who most deserved it. In Higher Admissions, Nicholas Lemann reflects on the state of Americaâ€™s aspirational meritocracy and the enduring value and meaning of standardized testing. Lemann writes that the anticipation of the Supreme Courtâ€™s 2023 decision banning affirmative action, plus the Covid pandemic, led hundreds of universities to stop requiring standardized admissions tests; now a handful of elite universities are reinstituting test requirements. The country is preoccupied with the admissions policies of the most selective universities, but Lemann redirects our attention to an alternate path that American higher education could have taken, and can still takeâ€”one that emphasizes selective admission less and a significant upgrade of the entire higher education system more. Lemann argues that to improve the state of higher education overall, we should focus not on the narrow chokepoint of admission to highly selective colleges, but on efforts to create as much meaningful opportunity for flourishing in our vast higher education system for as many people as possible. The book includes thoughtful and challenging responses from Marvin Krislov, Patricia GÃ¡ndara, and Prudence Carter.

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