also you say drop the sat for college. kids absolutely screamed their lungs out. why? i m talking about the reasoning test, the verbal and math reasoning test. look, those are affirmative action for smart kids who don t work hard in school because just pure i.k. will let orgeat really high score on them. we know for a fact that the achievement tests do just as good a job as predicting success in college and they do it for kids from disadvantaged schools, too. so why not have achievement tests? you got a chemistry test, it helps to be smart, but you also got to study chemistry. and by switching away from the reasoning test, we get away from this idea you can ace the test because go to a test prep school. gretchen: wow. why wasn t that idea around when i was taking the s.a.t.? number three, replace affirmative action. this is going to be a big one. why? you know what? schools should still say we are going to set aside a certain number of seats in our incoming