"The reputation of the [SAT] test is intimidating and it's getting more and more intimidating because it's becoming the center of the public discourse around affirmative action," Steele said.
The key to helping students achieve their potential, he said, is to demand a high standard while assuring students they can achieve it.
Counselors seemed to take a practical message from the presentation.
"One of the things I got out of this session is that there are ways that we can present these tests that may ease some of that pressure," West concluded. "If we don't make these tests such a big thing, maybe we'll find that students do okay or they don't feel as pressured by them."
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