Thanks for your response. What we're seeing now is the University of California potentially replacing the SAT/ACT with its own admissions test. I highly doubt such an exam would rectify any of the issues with racial disparities in scores which caused them to drop the SAT/ACT requirement in the first place.

In my view, this alternative could potentially be worse because it increases the barrier to entry for applying to each university. When students need to plan well in advance to take multiple entrance exams, it hurts applicants who intend on applying to multiple schools (perhaps to have a range of options for financial aid) and might discourage disadvantaged students who don't have the encouragement from home or from school to take yet another entrance exam.

To be clear, this proposal could work for the UCs because of their size and attractiveness, but it couldn't possibly scale to every single institution having their own entrance exam.

On the other hand, a complete removal of nationally relevant standards in the admissions process would require colleges to rely heavily on GPA, which can differ between schools in substantial ways. I don't see why GPA would be less "racist" than the SATs--arguably there is greater room for bias in subjective grades from individual teachers than a multi-choice exam marked by a computer.

I fully agree with you about ending up in a worse position than where we started, and would add that the work done by the College Board over decades in refining the SAT is not unsubstantial. If the rejection of the SAT is indeed ill-considered and administrators refuse to admit their mistake, reverting to the status quo will be a difficult task.