Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 13:14     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.


1400 is the national 97th percentile. No need to lower standards for those kids.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 09:18     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.


This is the answer. Plus now that they have re-baselined the SAT a couple of times 1400 is equivalent to a 1000 in the 70s.

High School has become a really expensive proposition.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 09:10     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:1260 @ VA Tech business school; graduating next year. Your kid needs to be well-rounded in my opinion. Mine is not a good standard test taker.

It's standardized test, not "standard test." Guess you're not a good writer.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 09:06     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
1260 @ VA Tech business school; graduating next year. Your kid needs to be well-rounded in my opinion. Mine is not a good standard test taker.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 06:13     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:Below 1400 you might as well send the kid to HVAC repair school. College is a waste of money at that point.


Thanks. I will tell that to my CPA kid.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 17:50     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Low 1200s at one of T5. TO, with convincing essays on lived experience. Mostly As so far. Great internship on Wall Street.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:43     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
My 1560 4.6 GPA son didn't go to college. But 5 years later I understand why. The kid is bright. He started his own business 1 year after HS and is doing extremely well.

Maybe SAT is a signal for intelligence?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:42     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Below 1400 you might as well send the kid to HVAC repair school. College is a waste of money at that point.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:25     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
DC had 1250 went TO. In an ivy doing great now. Straight As so far, joined a finance-related club, made so many friends. We will see if he could find an internship in NYC.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:20     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:My kid is at a WASP LAC and doing great. 1400 is 93rd percentile which is very high. Why would anyone be concerned how they're doing with a high SAT score like that (plus great everything else)?

This thread is ridiculous.

Probably because most top schools aren't class sizes of 5-10. Many public universities would steamroll your child to a paste.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:15     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
My kid is at a WASP LAC and doing great. 1400 is 93rd percentile which is very high. Why would anyone be concerned how they're doing with a high SAT score like that (plus great everything else)?

This thread is ridiculous.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 18:29     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Test optionaleans list in Engineering at a top 50 University.
Anonymous
Post 06/04/2025 07:29     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
Anonymous wrote:My biggest problem with the SATs is we don’t know how many times students take them just because their parents can afford to drop 70 bucks a pop for them. So what does a 1500 really mean if you took it like four times versus someone who only took it once and got a 1300?


Or the kid who got 1300 didn't get a good night's sleep and couldn't afford to take it again, or thought 1300 was fine for their purposes.

When I took the ACT and GRE decades ago, I didn't study for them and it never occured to me to retake them. I was busy, naive, and didn't think it was that big a deal.
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2025 10:23     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
My biggest problem with the SATs is we don’t know how many times students take them just because their parents can afford to drop 70 bucks a pop for them. So what does a 1500 really mean if you took it like four times versus someone who only took it once and got a 1300?
Anonymous
Post 06/03/2025 08:12     Subject: If your child was TO or below 1400 on the SAT, how are they doing in college?
College is the new high school… with remedial classes that are teaching high school math.

I guess once the standard is lowered, kids with 1400 can do “fine” in college.