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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone wants their kid to be exceptional. Most aren't. High schools have relented to parents and made grades meaningless due to this pressure; take a look at MCPS, where most kids who show up for class have 4.0+ GPAs. They mean almost nothing. The SAT is a highly accurate, hard-to-fake indicator of underlying G (general intelligence), geared towards a 17-year old brain. For those who complain about test prep, there's a fairly simple response: Only motivated kids actually do the preparation, and the preparation usually gets you a few percentage points out on the normal curve. A 1300 simply will not become a 1500. One more point; you do not want your 4.3 GPA / 1300 SAT kid at a place like UChicago. They will fail out and be miserable. There's a reason these tests exist, it's not just to make you feel bad.[/quote]
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