William Faulkner was a famous writer who won the nobel prize in 1949 for literature. He attended the University of Mississippi in 1919 and is known for his poems, short stories, and plays. Many people don’t know that this successful man only had a 18 on his ACT. It is important to know about standardized test because it is something that will and have impacted people's lives over years. Today we will discuss the way colleges rely on standardized test to help them admit students into theirs schools and how this system is failing to acknowledge that these test can’t determine how smart a person is. I am here to talk about colleges abolishing the reliance on standardized tests because I know people who is really smart but are not good test taker,