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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. My DH does horribly on standardized tests. 900 on the SAT, yet graduated from an excellent private high school with a 3.9 GPA. He was offered a full ride to college based on merit. Majored in chemistry. Graduated at the top of his class and was offered a full ride to med school. The SAT says NOTHING about future college performance or future success.[/quote]

Your DH is an extreme outlier.

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The odd teenager is always going to freeze up on standardized tests, even if they could answer most of the questions correctly in a low-pressure setting. Colleges know this, helping explain why the Test Optional movement is steadily gaining ground nationally.

I'm just not buying that the SAT says "nothing" about future college performance, because the test just isn't difficult for a HS student who's well read and did OK in MS or HS algebra and geometry. SATs are pitched at an 8th or 9th grade level for strong students who aren't geniuses or prodigies.

If high SAT scores were out of reach for cohorts of the best-prepped low-SES minority students, there's no way that average scores at the 9 NYC magnet test-in high schools, where at-risk/FARMs students are strongly represented, would be 1200+. What's obviously happening at Banneker, and Eastern, Dunbar, Ballou, Anacostia, is that the the most able low SES students in the system seldom get the essential support/prep they need to score high.

The fact that the depressing status quo works for our politicians, ed leaders, and the bleeding hearts and apologists for DCPS' failings on this thread is shameful.[/quote]

Agree 100% with this.  Top privates and magnet schools have many minority students from poor backgrounds who do exceedingly well on the SAT. Kids are not doing well on the SAT from Banneker because the education is a joke.  The SAT isn't rocket science.  It's basic reading and math at the geometry level or below.  
Sidwell, GDS, STA etc put many poor minority kids (and the rest of the class) through their paces for 4 years and these kids all end up with SATs scores above 1450.  They don't take million dollar review courses.  They learn over time,  n school thanks to a genuinely rigorous curriculum.   Not the DCPS bullsh$%T.  I've had
kids in both environments (DCPS and top DC private) and the education is world's apart. [/quote]

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