> I agree with the part about smart kids being disadvantaged by the SAT going away, but nonconformists and smart people are not the same thing. In this context

> I agree with the part about smart kids being disadvantaged by the SAT going away, but nonconformists and smart people are not the same thing. In this context, "smart noncomformist kids" refers to the intersection of "smart kids" and "nonconformist kids". The proposition of this sentence is that college admissions officers will reject all the nonconformist kids because they can't tell which ones are smart.