If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?

[Anonymous]

College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.

[Anonymous]

My biggest problem with the SATs is we don’t know how many times students take them just because their parents can afford to drop 70 bucks a pop for them. So what does a 1500 really mean if you took it like four times versus someone who only took it once and got a 1300?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My biggest problem with the SATs is we don’t know how many times students take them just because their parents can afford to drop 70 bucks a pop for them. So what does a 1500 really mean if you took it like four times versus someone who only took it once and got a 1300?

Or the kid who got 1300 didn't get a good night's sleep and couldn't afford to take it again, or thought 1300 was fine for their purposes.

When I took the ACT and GRE decades ago, I didn't study for them and it never occured to me to retake them. I was busy, naive, and didn't think it was that big a deal.

[Anonymous]

Test optionaleans list in Engineering at a top 50 University.

[Anonymous]

My kid is at a WASP LAC and doing great. 1400 is 93rd percentile which is very high. Why would anyone be concerned how they're doing with a high SAT score like that (plus great everything else)?

This thread is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is at a WASP LAC and doing great. 1400 is 93rd percentile which is very high. Why would anyone be concerned how they're doing with a high SAT score like that (plus great everything else)?

This thread is ridiculous.

Probably because most top schools aren't class sizes of 5-10. Many public universities would steamroll your child to a paste.

[Anonymous]

DC had 1250 went TO. In an ivy doing great now. Straight As so far, joined a finance-related club, made so many friends. We will see if he could find an internship in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Below 1400 you might as well send the kid to HVAC repair school. College is a waste of money at that point.

[Anonymous]

My 1560 4.6 GPA son didn't go to college. But 5 years later I understand why. The kid is bright. He started his own business 1 year after HS and is doing extremely well.

Maybe SAT is a signal for intelligence?

[Anonymous]

Low 1200s at one of T5. TO, with convincing essays on lived experience. Mostly As so far. Great internship on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Below 1400 you might as well send the kid to HVAC repair school. College is a waste of money at that point.

Thanks. I will tell that to my CPA kid.

[Anonymous]

1260 @ VA Tech business school; graduating next year. Your kid needs to be well-rounded in my opinion. Mine is not a good standard test taker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1260 @ VA Tech business school; graduating next year. Your kid needs to be well-rounded in my opinion. Mine is not a good standard test taker.

It's standardized test, not "standard test." Guess you're not a good writer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.

This is the answer. Plus now that they have re-baselined the SAT a couple of times 1400 is equivalent to a 1000 in the 70s.

High School has become a really expensive proposition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.

1400 is the national 97th percentile. No need to lower standards for those kids.