At the beginning of WWII James Conant , President of Harvard University, created a scholarship program to attract other students. However, Conant had to come up with a way to compare and evaluate students academically. Conant’s assistant solved the problem by using Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The SAT was created by a psychologist at Princeton called Carl Brigham. The SAT was based on the army recruits IQ test which Brigham had created before. The first SAT was administered in 1926 and by the end of WWII most colleges and universities would use it to select students. Later Conant established ETS to administer it.

More than two million students take this test and almost all the colleges and universities use the SAT score for admission nationwide. Despite some weaknesses SAT prevails and is an important factor in student admission process.

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