First, the College Board made the reprehensible decision to abolish its SAT subject tests. Although AP exams are much more rigorous and better at proving merit, schools in disproportionately low-income and rural areas lack the funding to provide AP coursework and exams. Thus, SAT subject tests offered the next-best objective demonstration of expertise, as the math portion of the standard SAT is pathetic — it only tests basic algebra and geometry.

Now the College Board has proven its death wish is not just pandemic-era hysteria. Not only will the general SAT exam go digital, allowing highly paid tutors to rig the test for the rich kids, but they will also amend the entire value of the test.

Students will have access to a calculator for math, an obvious enough concession for some trigonometric functions or algorithms for physics but utterly unjustified for math courses taught to prepubescent students abroad. The reading comprehension sections will be truncated. This will only put more weight on the subjective personal statement, which many high-income students hire other people to write for them anyway.