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Series_G t1_iu1u723 wrote

The SAT is a load of horse-ahem, anyway. It's not a predictor of intelligence or life outcomes or even college graduation. So much so that many colleges don't even require it, anymore. GPA is a better predictor of college success. And even that has serious limitations, post-Covid.

I get what the author is implying. Just wish they would come out and say instead of (probably) posting back to the thread under another handle.

The careerism these days is exhausting.

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Mother_Sand_6336 t1_iu2uqyn wrote

What evidence do you have that SAT scores don’t correlate with freshman-year retention rates, 6-year graduation rates, and all sorts of life outcomes such as income, post-grad degrees, or book authorship, because I’ve seen pretty consistent evidence of those correlations repeated across decades?

GPA and family income correlate strongly, too, perhaps a bit more than SAT, but ‘school quality’ obscures the significance of GPA and disadvantages those from less affluent backgrounds, whereas SATs help such students demonstrate college-readiness despite poorer grades that might result from life events or other burdens.

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