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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It's fascinating to see so many posters in this forum diminishing standardized tests[/b], but then insisting that their DC aced them anyway.

Meanwhile, according to the 2023 Presidential Scholar program, the Delaware / Maryland / D.C. / Virginia region apparently produced less than 400 students who were able to achieve a composite 36 on the ACT (with perfect 36 subparts) or a composite 1600 on the SAT.

Not even enough candidates to occupy 1/2 the seats in the freshman class at the smallest of the T20 schools.[/quote]

Because it’s all a game and only a measure of how well the students prepped; it’s also not predictive of how well a student will do in college.  If parents pay for test prep, their kids will generally do well — my son increased his score by 100 points (to an 1480) after we paid a lot of money for test prep.  My DD, on the other had, opted to take the test only once with no prep, got a 1380, and decided she would go TO.  That said, she is a far better student than my son, had a higher gpa and 5s and 4s on her AP tests (my son got 3s).  I really don’t believe SATs and the like really tell what a student is like,  While my son is certainly capable (and he’s doing well in college), he has to try harder than my daughter.  [/quote]

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