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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am reading so many posts about kids with amazing GPAs and mediocre SAT/ACT scores. In this day and age of hugely inflated GPAs it makes more sense to me me that schools would require standardized test scores to at least see how these kids perform under that sort of pressure. College is not for the faint of heart (at least not at the top 20) and kids that can’t “cut it” with decent standardized scores really are doing themselves a disservice by attending and then not performing well on the exams and evaluations. So many people saying “Billy has a 5.0 GPA and all As and 10,000 AP classes but got a 1200 on the SAT…. Should we submit that to Stanford?” It’s driving me nuts. Not to mention that the only kids submitting scores are the ones who knock it out of the park which in turn just raises the average scores of those admitted. It’s a vicious cycle. [/quote]

There are not very many kids going to Stanford that could only get a 1200.  There are however kids who might only get 1400-1490 going, who are strong academically.  Because we all know that the SAT is not the be all end all measurement of intelligence.  Someone with a 1450 is really not any less smart than your kid with a 1550, especially if that 1450 is from someone without the privileges your kid had growing up---so 1450 with no endless test prep, worrying about where their next meal will come from and if they are safe on the walk home from school, needing to work 20 hours a week to help the family, etc yet the same kid takes the most advanced courses at their school does well and strives to excel at everything.  You don't know how to compare that to your privileged kid with 40 hours of test prep, all the money in the world and no real life concerns, who has always had tutoring if they struggled and parents pushing all things academic and college prep.   Colleges have decided they do know how to compare and using SAT scores is not IT[/quote]

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