Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Aptitude

We found this interesting article in the NYTimes Magazine called "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Aptitude." Here's a bit from the first paragraph:

...Decades ago, in her late teens, Sotomayor faced another important test — the SAT, the traditional route to top-tier placement in our national meritocracy — on which, by her own admission, she didn’t do well. What exactly her test scores were she hasn’t said, but she has revealed that they “were not comparable to that of my colleagues” at Princeton University, where she was admitted as a self-styled “affirmative-action baby.” The fact that she later graduated from Princeton with highest academic honors and went on to reach the upper echelons of her chosen career, the law, speaks well of her intellect, her drive and the discernment of Princeton’s admissions office, but it doesn’t speak well, necessarily, of the conventional, test-based notions of merit that might well have stopped her, had they been strictly applied, before she even got started.

Yes, more confirmation that the SAT doesn't really tell you all that much about your academic potential, or what your future holds. Maybe one day the powers that be will find a fair and accurate way to quantify your potential. Until then, let's work the Test as hard as we can, so we can get to college, where the real learnin' happens!