Letter: Schools need better measures of competence

As part of the college application process, high school seniors take standardized tests and submit them to schools. These test scores will become defining factors that sort the students into broad categories of achievement or mediocrity.As a student who is applying right now, I have to say that the standardized tests give me pause. On their face, they test general knowledge. But in reality these tests reward test-taking skills as much as knowledge. The intelligence of the student or likelihood o