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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are just spinning your wheels. There are people who barely broke 1000 on the SAT occupying the same jobs and getting the same salaries as those with higher scores and Ivy League degrees.

The SAT should be abolished altogether. All the practice and tutoring just teaches toward the test, and whether you do well or not has no weight on how well you will do in life or how intelligent you are either. In the end, it all evens out. The race to the top just to be able to signal who has bigger bragging potential is a waste of time. The world has big problems to solve, and if all you care about is a big number that you think determines how well you will do in life, then you have a big reality check coming for you. Most people succeed due to luck, grit, perseverance, how well they marry, family support, being in the right place, right time, etc. not because of a test.[/quote]

The SAT did a fantastic job in identifying high performing, high aptitude kids languishing in nowheresville. That was before it was dumbed down and rescored to become effectively meaningless. And there was (before all the dumbing down) a big overlap between SAT performance and financial outcome in life. Because higher aptitude people do better. They always have. 20 years ago the college forums were all about how someone with a 1400 SAT score (circa 2000) would have the same life outcome regardless of whether he or she went to Columbia or University of Maryland. But pretending a 1500 SAT scorer today is no smarter or not likely to have a better life outcome than a 1100 scorer is delusional. [/quote]

The delusion is that a 1500 will always have a better life outcome. It simply has never been true even to this day. Think of your logic and also take a hard look at who lives around your neighborhood and who works at your employer. You’ve all arrived at the same place regardless of your path or SAT score, or Ivy or not that you attended. My upper class NW DC neighborhood has successful people from all walks of life and many are without the pedigree being peddled here. My neighbors both admitted that they essentially bombed on the SAT and yet they live in million dollar mansions and earn hearty six figure salaries. So no, the SAT has no bearing whatsoever about how well your life will turn out. There are so many other life factors that will determine whether your kid will succeed or not. [/quote]

Agree 1,000 percent. And again, the SAT is not a measure of intelligence either. [/quote]

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