[9YearLurker]

Huh?

The SAT and ACT were designed to be merit based and are still the most equal and fair measures we have.

[JerseyHighlander]

The problem is to move a 982 SAT score student to the 110 SAT score student is a matter of hiring a better than decent SAT prep tutor. A family friend has been a testing tutor for over a decade and her long term average is an increase of over 180 points on the SAT (sans the writing section). She charges more than the current value of the Florida Bright scholarship though.

Florida lawmakers chose to significantly raise qualifying test marks — from a minimum of 970 three years ago to 1170 now on the SAT. The average Florida combined SAT score was about 982 last year.

Her students come out with higher test scores and better grasp on prepping and taking tests, but SAT scores are a very weak predictor of undergraduate performance in students who had private quality tutors to prep for the tests to get them into schools one notch above where they would have been accepted otherwise... So where is the merit on display?