Academic dishonesty has been a rising issue in high schools, both public and private colleges and universities. ... On various occasions, I know people who have been turned down by colleges not by their intelligence level but because of their SAT scores. When describing the evil tricks that colleges and universities use Williams stated, "Baylor University offered students, who were already admitted to the university, $300 in bookstore credits to take the SAT again in the hopes of boosting Baylor's SAT averages. " Colleges have lost sight of what their true to purpose is which is to teach ...

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As society becomes more and more advanced, it tends to quantify people into numbers; SAT's and ACT's are all just ways that society wants us to focus towards preparing us for the higher education that comes after these tests. ... , Boese uses empirical data and logos to express that contrary to what the test scores are showing, "students aren't getting any smarter, just better test takers." ... While Boese agrees that the empirical data shows an increase in test scores, he disagrees later in several aspects. ... (Boese) Boese appeals to logos and shows that even holding the non-...

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