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more about #sats more comments → momentsofabsurdity: I go to a well respected liberal arts college that's SAT optional (I'm probably outing myself here, but whatever). Roughly half of students applying s... more » perfidia: I was really grateful for the SAT... As a smarty pants nerd girl in a small town high school in Kansas, I had almost no AP classes, advanced math, or ... more » brokestephenswoman: Sigh. The problem with all of the pressure to succeed at standardized tests (ACT, SAT, AP, etc) is that it drives students to be entirely focused in s... more » mannequin: I am in the midst testing and soon college applications will be surrounding me, and I have to say standardized testing is one of the worst academic th... more » clevernamehere: I'm pretty familiar with the racial issues associated with the SATs, but I think too often we focus on race while ignoring class. A lot of how well st... more » DangerMouse: I'm wondering if this guy did poorly at Princeton because everything had gone easily for him up to that point in his life that he didn't know how to a... more » CollegeBookworm: Just one thing- the SAT doesn't claim to test aptitude anymore. SAT actually doesn't stand for anything. It's seriously just SAT. How ridiculous is th... more » daisen-in: On the topic of standard tests for graduate school: a physics professor at Berkeley did a study recently of Berkeley physics and astronomy graduate st... more » Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: I did really well on the SATs. I also misspelled my name on the booklet. Getting my nice scores back in an envelope addressed to MignihtBikeRide= mix... more » tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I have to say, I have never been more grateful for the day I found out my potential transfer school wouldn't hazard a glance at my SAT scores after I ... more » thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: *opens up Excel and creates a new Jezebel spreadsheet, this time with testing scores.* :) more » scullymurphy: I find the questions this post asks interesting, but I'm kind of bummed there are no answers suggested. I mean of course it would be great if everyone... more » thegogglesdonothing: According to a fairly recent study, SAT total scores still correlate at a high level (r = .47) with first year college GPA for black students. The cor... more » rhymenoceros: Eliminating magnets would only intensify the problem, would it not? I think it needs to go the other way--attendance areas need to be eliminated and d... more » Trulymadlyme: A better way to tell if someone can handle college material is to look at their AP exam scores, including 2's. Those tests were ten times more challen... more » -
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SATs, College, And "Books That Make You Dumb": The Politics Of Academic Merit
Sonia Sotomayor didn't do very well on the SATs, but she did really well at Princeton. Walter Kirn, whose experience was the opposite, wonders what this says about the way we measure "merit." More »
