Comment by Alex3917

Whereas in the US the reason that colleges use essay questions is because jews score too highly on the SATs. We can thank Harvard for this, as usual. Gladwell has an essay about this here:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlar...

I forget what Gladwell is copying from, but I know that there is an earlier article that goes into even more detail.