On: For Sale: Sat-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student ...

[dpcx]

I don't think this is new - I'm pretty sure it's how colleges have been getting the names of potential students for _decades_.

[dsr_ → dpcx]

It's a major profit center for College Board. It's how I applied to five schools and was accepted at seven of them -- more than twenty years ago.

[ceejayoz → dpcx]

Encouraging people with low scores to apply so they can reject and boost their US News ranking via the exclusivity metric is new, though.

[icedchai → dpcx]

It's not. I remember getting mailings 25+ years ago.

[ryanmercer → dpcx]

And even if not, the colleges that require SAT scores are requiring them just to weed out potential students they don't want.