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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The College board needs to release raw scores for the AP tests. That way MIT and Cornell can see whether your 5 on Physics EM was a 98% or a 61%.

We throw away a lot of information that could be useful for everyone in the process. [/quote]

Sure, if the goal is to assemble a class of kids who test well.  [/quote]

Only dishonest or ignorant people say that standardized tests only measures the ability to take standardized tests

Standardized tests are the best measure we have of cognitive ability.  It predicts pretty much everything you would want to predict.  [/quote]

Most AO would rather see smart kids, who rather than spending $$$$$$ and 50+ hours prepping to take the SAT/ACT multiple times, have something they are passionate about and focus their efforts on, something that enriches their lives beyond just "studying for the test".  
My own kid raised their score from 1320 to 1520 with 4 hours of individualized test prep (going over a baseline test).  Easy to do in a short time period, especially if you can afford the tutor.  If not, it might take you 20 hours to do that individually.  So yes, my kid is privileged to not need to spend much time getting to their optimum score (and yes, had they spent another 10 hours focused on Verbal they could have gotten even higher)

So nope, SAT is not a predator of cognitive ability.  IQ tests are  but not SAT/ACT
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