[etni] Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?

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Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore? 

How several well-known writers (and the Unabomber) would fare on the new SAT
 
by John Katzman, Andy Lutz and Erik Olson 
 
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Every year more than a million college-bound high school students spend a 
Saturday morning taking the SAT. In 2001 the University of California system, 
led by Richard Atkinson, then its president, threatened to change that by 
replacing the SAT with a test that measured a student's mastery of advanced 
high school-level math, did not contain verbal-analogy questions, and included 
an essay. Since the University of California is the SAT's biggest customer, and 
has been for more than thirty years, many thought this spelled the beginning of 
the end for the test.

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