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One of the nice things about Lemann's story is the way it moves from Conant's lofty writings down to the gritty struggles of politics and campaigns, showing how the original idea--sorting people by scientific tests--was twisted by events.
But when this story begins in the early 1930s, as Conant becomes president of Harvard and is thinking of ways of selecting able students from the Midwest and elsewhere outside of Harvard's traditional recruiting area, Harvard and similar institutions were still to some degree discriminating against Jewish students.
The Big Test is worth reading for the superb section on Bryant and Conant.
Conant was alarmed by the thought that America might be developing a hereditary aristocracy.
James Bryant Conant and Henry Chauncey play key roles, and clearly the effect of the shift to an exam like the SAT is to make it possible for those with fewer social advantages and who have not attended high-status prep schools to successfully compete for places like Harvard if they are academically able.