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Perhaps every college should administer its own admission test. That's how it worked back (waayyy back) when I was trying to get into the non-public high schools.
It would be expensive to do, but the tests could be administered in the same way as the SATs. Show up at the testing center, get the right college's exam (which would have to be delivered in advance after you sent in your test fee to the college). Other kids are taking different tests for different colleges, so there's no way to cheat by looking at the guy next to you.
The big test-prep courses would become less meaningful, except for only the most popular schools. It wouldn't be profitable for places like the Princeton Review to prepare a prep course for every school; just the big ones.
If you want to try to get into more than one school, tough $hit, you're wasting as many Saturdays as are necessary, and paying as many fees as are necessary, for you to apply to all the schools you want.
Kinda makes the "standardized" testing scheme a little more attractive.
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