"Why not ask candidates to write an essay, or tell you in person, about how they've overcome adversity?"
Wouldn't such a system be very easy to attack, how would you avoid the judges being biased, or the claim that they could be biased? Since judging an essay would probably not be an automated thing at this stage of AI development?
Most colleges (especially private colleges) already require you to write essays. Having one on adversity is also, for certain colleges, already in place. I'm not talking about automated judging, or even explicit scoring (besides figuring out hire/not hire, or next round or not), i.e. no, this can't really be used to exactly replace the SAT, but it could be used as an evaluative supplement.
Wouldn't such a system be very easy to attack, how would you avoid the judges being biased, or the claim that they could be biased? Since judging an essay would probably not be an automated thing at this stage of AI development?