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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See Harvard.

Test optional will be much more prevalent.[/quote]

People can slide through Harvard without actually being smart.  That's much more difficult at a school like MIT, or alot of other schools.  I think more schools will be returning to test required.[/quote]

How many times does this have to be explained to you:  [b]standardized admissions tests do not measure intelligence. [/b]

And, you need much more than intelligence to do well in college.[/quote]

This doesn't really match my experience.  The kids who did well on tests were clearly brighter than that kids who didn't.  [/quote]

Agreed. The SAT has been shown to correlate as well with IQ tests as individual IQ tests do with each other.  That was the older SAT though which was considerably harder.  The new one is probably more trainable and less correlated with IQ, but the relationship still exists.

If SAT isn’t related to IQ show me all the 70 IQ kids (just as common as all the 130 IQ kids we see running around this area) with a 1500+ on the SAT.

People simply don’t like the fact that the SAT measures something real that helps to identify college potential.[/quote]

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