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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dh and I - and most of our friends- were above average academically. We also focused on colleges and test score differentiations blah blah. With the exception of several trust fund kids among us, most of us are doing well but no one is super wealthy, and we all work for a living.

The people we know who are very wealthy are 1. A plumber who started his own business and landed major commercial contracts. 2. my SIL and her dh who both got abysmal scores on the ACT but opened up a business that makes $$; 3. A guy who started investing in Brooklyn commercial real estate 30+ years ago. [/quote]

This.  It reminds me of the book “What Got You Here Won't Get You There” when I was trying to figure out what I needed to break through career wise. From what I have observed, in life it’s not a straight line where 1500’s on the SAT and high school GPA automatically leads to academic success in college, automatically leads to high performance on job, automatically leads to being very wealthy.  When I look at who is the most financially successful in my family it comes down to being able to sell and/or own a successful business or being able to invest really well.  News flash, SAT isn’t a prediction of those things.

Going a step back to who does well in college, in my opinion high school performance and SAT within a range has some correlation to college performance but it’s nuanced.  As someone mentioned 1350’s is still 90th percentile. So if someone in the top 10% in SAT score and also top x% at a competitive high school attends college - they could still be doing well compared to someone who may have scored higher on SAT or had a higher GPA.  Work ethic, time management/executive functioning, knowing how to study, knowing how/when to ask for help, class selection (balancing classes) are all things that make the difference that are within their control.  While there might be a floor where no matter how hard you work and have a grasp on all those other things, you will be so far behind all your classmates at x college for all four years - that floor isn’t a 1500 on the SAT and 4.0 GPA. That’s why lots of people are posting their TO kid below 1400 on the SAT is going well in college and it could very well be true.[/quote]

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