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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since we're in the the college forum:

The SAT math and AP Calculus has a low ceiling in content, depth, and challenge. AMC is like a super-SAT that finds large differences between students scoring 750-800 in SAT math and 5 in AP Calc BC -- there are far too many of these for the seats in the most rigorous mathematical science college programs, and those SAT/AP scores are not sufficiently predictive for meeting the ability expectations of these programs. [/quote]

Yet those programs still want to see the SAT scores.

Back when CalTech was test blind, people on here said it was because they were using AMC scores instead. But the faculty hated the system and the school went right back to requiring the SAT/ACT.

So it seems like the SAT is actually measuring something different, and/or there are a lot of kids who CalTech wants who don’t do AMC math. [/quote]

Agreed.  There are quite a few AMC qualifiers (so top scorers on the AMC10 exam) on the "Applying to College" board on Reddit who don't have perfect math SAT scores.  I always find this very weird. [/quote]

Do you mean AIME qualifiers?

I think as with all things, there are probabilities, so any one anecdote doesn't say much.

Some people are sloppy, or slow, or don't have the energy for a day of 2+hrs of testing, which could bring an SAT down below 800 despite knowing the material cold.

AIME qualification only requires about 13-15 correct answers in 75 minutes, and some people we squeeze into the bottom by luck.
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