During the question forum following the panelists' statements, one viewer suggested that the documentary posed as an example of "advocacy" against the SAT rather than "journalism."
But Kennedy School student Stacie Olivares-Howard said she thinks the documentary is right to question the merits of the SAT.
"I went to Berkeley, so this issue really resonates for me," Olivares-Howard said. "The SAT really shouldn't be used [to determine admissions]."
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Two announced panelists, Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible and Nicholas Lemann '76, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy,
were unable to attend the debate.