Anonymous wrote:SATs are the only way to really assess a student's ability. Sorry you can't cheat on the SAT like you could in classes and are upset. 🤷♀️
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When half of the class are TO, you won't be any different from half of the class. You sort of do fine.
The right comparison is the put a TO kid in a test required school. Then ask the question how they are doing there. It would be tough.
There’s no harder curriculum between a test required and test optional school. You really think Florida Institute of Technology and University of Tennessee Southern have more difficult curriculums than Princeton and Carnegie Mellon? You’re delusional.
It may not be the curriculum. It's the difference in peers and the competition you TO kids would face in different schools. When half of the class are TO, your TO kids are competing with half of class being TO who are less competent. When it's test required, your TO kids are facing a lot tougher competition.
It is also possible that, in TO schools, professors may have to water down the curriculum when a large number of the TO kids cannot follow what they teach. We hear a lot of complain from the professors these days, and Harvard initiated the remedial math class.
None of this is true.
You're putting too much emphasis one and standardized test.
80%+ of colleges don't.
Anonymous wrote:A 1400 is the 94th percentile. Do you really think that only the top 6 percent of SAT scorers can handle college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When half of the class are TO, you won't be any different from half of the class. You sort of do fine.
The right comparison is the put a TO kid in a test required school. Then ask the question how they are doing there. It would be tough.
There’s no harder curriculum between a test required and test optional school. You really think Florida Institute of Technology and University of Tennessee Southern have more difficult curriculums than Princeton and Carnegie Mellon? You’re delusional.
It may not be the curriculum. It's the difference in peers and the competition you TO kids would face in different schools. When half of the class are TO, your TO kids are competing with half of class being TO who are less competent. When it's test required, your TO kids are facing a lot tougher competition.
It is also possible that, in TO schools, professors may have to water down the curriculum when a large number of the TO kids cannot follow what they teach. We hear a lot of complain from the professors these days, and Harvard initiated the remedial math class.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:When half of the class are TO, you won't be any different from half of the class. You sort of do fine.
The right comparison is the put a TO kid in a test required school. Then ask the question how they are doing there. It would be tough.
There’s no harder curriculum between a test required and test optional school. You really think Florida Institute of Technology and University of Tennessee Southern have more difficult curriculums than Princeton and Carnegie Mellon? You’re delusional.
Anonymous wrote:Are they doing well?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are they doing well?
I'm going to blow your mind.....
I got a 1240 and I make in the 1% income and have 1% with no parental help. I went to run of the mill state school too, where I graduated summa cum laude, had grad school paid 100% in a science field and worked my way up the corporate ladder.
Oh, I did get a 34 on the ACT though and was in the top 10% of my very large suburban highschool. And because of my ACT score I got 100% scholarship at my state university.
SAT is just a test. It doesn't predict anything.
For a scientist, you have a fairly weakness grasp on what "predict" means.
Sounds like you only took SAT once, and took ACT also for some reason??? and earned a score equivalent to well above OP's 1400.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are they doing well?
I'm going to blow your mind.....
I got a 1240 and I make in the 1% income and have 1% with no parental help. I went to run of the mill state school too, where I graduated summa cum laude, had grad school paid 100% in a science field and worked my way up the corporate ladder.
Oh, I did get a 34 on the ACT though and was in the top 10% of my very large suburban highschool. And because of my ACT score I got 100% scholarship at my state university.
SAT is just a test. It doesn't predict anything.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are they doing well?
DS just graduated from Stanford this year. He is doing amazing. Has been accepted at Oxford for a master’s program.
He scored 1340 in the SAT 5 years ago….
Anonymous wrote:When half of the class are TO, you won't be any different from half of the class. You sort of do fine.
The right comparison is the put a TO kid in a test required school. Then ask the question how they are doing there. It would be tough.