Should SATs Matter?

A growing number of colleges are spurning a test that has measured and mortified American for 75 years.  But what are the alternatives?... Hamilton College is considering making the SAT optional.  Countless other schools have de-emphasized the SAT in more subtle ways- continuing to ask for scores but weighing other factors more heavily.  Granted many of the SAT- optional schools sit on utopian campuses in liberal New England villages.  But it's getting hard to find an admissions officer anywhere who says an SAT score alone tells you anything important.