[The Duke]

The SAT is a solid predictor of college success.

So a compromised test serves as a predictor for success in a dumbed-down college? No surprises there...

[AnAmericanMother]

If they dumb it down much more it will be fairly useless for the top-tier schools. The problem is of course compression on the upper end of the test, so that you can't sort out the extremely bright from the very bright and the merely bright.

As it stood in 2006, there was still some wiggle room at the top. Some very good colleges still exist, but you have to do your due diligence to find them. We were very pleased with my daughter's school, and she got a good education there with a minimum of politically-correct nonsense.