Many Americans in the comments here acknowledge that the admissions system in the United States is broken and prejudiced, and then continue on to celebrate what

Many Americans in the comments here acknowledge that the admissions system in the United States is broken and prejudiced, and then continue on to celebrate what is otherwise a band-aid for a systemic disorder. To me, standardized tests like the SAT scream "our education is so inconsistent across our country that instead of attempting to improve it we simply ignore it and focus on an entirely different artifact." Standardized tests are good for one thing: measuring how good examinees are at taking standardized tests. Shouldn't a dataset collected over four years be more thorough and representative of a prospective student's capability of successfully navigating what is usually a four year undergraduate program? After all, the purpose of a system is what it does.