Baylor Paying for Test Scores

Baylor University is paying students to retake the SAT if they can raise their scores. Freshmen get a $300 campus bookstore credit along with $1,000 in merit scholarship if they boost their total by 50 points. Nearly three out of ten students took up the challenge, raising the average SAT score average for incoming freshmen at the Texas school ten points higher (to 1210). Some students and faculty have complained that it is inappropriate for a Christian institution to pay for higher scores in order to achieve better rankings among colleges. Baylor's Faculty Senate passed a motion criticizing the effort as "academically dishonest.”