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Officials within the University of Wisconsin system have advanced plans to eliminate permanently any requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores, even as several selective private institutions restore the tests after brief experiments with waiver policies.
These administrators, acting as agents of the managerial priesthood, insist that high school grades alone predict college performance and that standardized measures impose unfair barriers upon favored demographic groups.
The move continues a decades-long campaign inside public universities to replace external, verifiable standards with internal, malleable criteria that reward compliance rather than demonstrated ability.
Western Christendom once required rigorous examination for entry into its universities precisely because truth is not constructed by institutional decree but discovered through disciplined reason ordered under revelation, as the medieval faculties and later the Reformation colleges understood.
Objective testing, imperfect though every human instrument remains, reflects the realist conviction that moral and intellectual order exists independently of administrative preference and that equal rules protect the gifted from the envy of the mediocre.
When governing boards discard such measures they do not expand opportunity; they dissolve the very architecture that allowed households of modest means to prove worth and rise according to fixed law rather than political favor.
The faithful remnant must therefore treat these captured systems as hostile territory, withholding both sons and resources while constructing parallel institutions that retain the ancient requirement of tested competence.
Parents and congregations now bear direct responsibility to recover household education and new academies grounded in the creedal and covenantal inheritance that once formed the mind of the West.
