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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't we learned yet that people can be quite successful without top SATs?
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Some people can be. In aggregate, high SAT people are more successful and low SAT people are less successful. On average and especially on the margins.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, high SAT, high LSAT. Successful presidents.

[b]Joe Biden, low SAT, low LSAT. Unsuccessful [/b]president.[/quote][b]

True, although we don't know Biden's SAT but he was only a B student in high school. He did poorly at U of Delaware. This is from AI. We do know he got a 160 on the LSAT which won't get you into a good law school, hence Syracuse, and ranked very low in the class even there.

"Joe Biden earned his Juris Doctor (JD) from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. There isn't much information about his LSAT score, but here's some information about Biden's law school experience. 
Law school experience 
Biden's grades in law school were relatively poor.
In his first year, he failed a course for plagiarizing a law review article, but the failing grade was later removed.
He graduated 76th in a class of 85.
Other academic achievements 
Biden earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware in 1965.
He double majored in history and political science, and minored in English.
He graduated with a class rank of 506 out of 688."[/quote]

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