Should a Nobel laureate be required to take the SATs?

Should a Nobel laureate be appropriate to yield the SATs?, Even the world’s youngest Nobel laureate needs to ace her SATs if she wants to get into Stanford.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani boyhood who won the Nobel Peace Prize afterwards continuing up for girls’ apprenticeship adjoin the Taliban, is advancing to go to college. She has called Stanford one of her top choices, but the university will crave her to abide her SAT scores, CBS News reported, afore she can attempt with added than 40,000 added applicants for the 2,000 or so first-year spots.

The claim has already added accent the ascendant role of connected testing in the US educational arrangement – admitting some universities no best crave account submissions from academy applicants, as The Christian Science Monitor's Beatrice Gitau appear in July.

As it stands, some 180 accessible and clandestine colleges in the US News & Apple Report rankings accept switched to a "test-optional" approach, with George Washington University a part of the a lot of contempo schools to do so.

"The test-optional action should strengthen and alter an already outstanding appellant basin and will augment admission for those high-achieving acceptance who accept historically been underrepresented at careful colleges and universities, including acceptance of color, first-generation acceptance and acceptance from low-income households," said acceptance official Laurie Koehler in GW’s Aug. 1 announcement.

"We achievement the test-optional action sends a bulletin to -to-be acceptance that if you are smart, aggressive and accept challenged yourself in a ambitious top academy curriculum, there could be a abode for you here," she added.

Stanford has not abutting the test-optional movement, and some accept criticized the university for its accent on array in the face of Malala’s achievements for animal rights and apprenticeship – accomplishments that cover about arresting women’s apprenticeship in her built-in Pakistan, founding a academy for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and advancement apple leaders to advance girls’ admission to education.

Stanford is allegedly ambitious that Malala Yousafzai yield the SATs afore applying, because what's a Nobel Peace Prize, anyway?— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 1, 2015

More affirmation of cool akin of accent accustomed to connected testing in this country. http://t.co/E11VS0hfF2 #Malala #SATs #Stanford— Anne Spalter (@digital7dharma) September 8, 2015

"sure, she is the all-around face of the changeable apprenticeship movement and stood up to the taliban by herself, but how's her account comprehension?"— rachel syme (@rachsyme) September 1, 2015

Others, however, say that for her advancement to be effective, Malala needs to airing the allocution and be accountable to the aforementioned bookish standards appropriate of all students. In an op-ed for Pakistan's Express Tribune, biographer and women’s apostle Aalia Suleman wrote:

[A]ll acceptance who are ambitious to access a absolutely approved afterwards academy have to be academically adjourned on an according footing, Nobel Prize or no Nobel Prize.

Also, authoritative abiding she enters a university like Stanford on the base of arete rather than "unusual circumstances" ... will accumulate added account for her in the continued run than she would be able to aggregation otherwise.

After all, if she is the all-around attribute of women’s apprenticeship and a resonating articulation for girls’ education, she has told that banderole up high.

While Malala has yet to absolution a account on the matter, she has said afore that she is accommodating to acquire her abode at any university. "It wouldn’t attending actual acceptable if the babe attempt for absent to go to academy bootless her GCSEs," she told The Australian endure year, apropos to the UK agnate of the SATs.

As it happened, she took the tests anon after and accustomed top marks, as her appreciative ancestor showed the world:

My wife Toor Pekai and I are appreciative of Malala accepting 6A*s and 4As. #education for every child. pic.twitter.com/lfoKBLMGYz— Ziauddin Yousafzai (@ZiauddinY) August 21, 2015
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