> If the result is correlated with race, that’s not necessarily an issue with admission processes. True, though if socioeconomic status were not correlated wit

> If the result is correlated with race, that’s not necessarily an issue with admission processes. True, though if socioeconomic status were not correlated with race, then there would be much less of a reason to want to select based on race in the first place. > There are other non-academic tests like CogAT, Wechsler, etc. that may be even better They probably would, for a while. Anything different from the SAT/ACT but correlated with some sort of capability is going to do better when the problem is specialized preparation for existing tests. And that was precisely the problem that caused colleges to stop looking at SAT/ACT. It wasn't because the tests are bad. It was the usual "you make what you measure". Switching tests isn't free, though. You lose all the historical data that show the association between a test and the specific outcome you care about (eg graduation rates at this institution). You have to go through a bootstrapping period, and by the time you're done, it's possible that people are now targeting the new test and it starts losing its utility too.