As someone who was perhaps the poorest member of my graduating class at an elite, private college, I can say with some degree of certainty that the SAT was an i

As someone who was perhaps the poorest member of my graduating class at an elite, private college, I can say with some degree of certainty that the SAT was an important, if not the most important, factor in helping me gain access to opportunities that no one from my rural community had ever had before. So in that sense, the SAT can be a tremendous equalizer, even if it is often the opposite.