Actually the tests help the poor to get admitted against quotas.

100 years ago there were Jewish quotas in Ivy League schools and others. The way that they finally were able to get over the quotas was when universities started accepting the SAT for admission, thus making admissions merit-based.

This is easy history to look up on the web, so the reality is that merit-based exams help to overcome quotas.

I wonder if now the universities will re-instate the quotas for Jews, since Jews are overrepresented in universities compared with the proportion of those that appear in US population.

Any opinions about this?