<p>So, how do colleges solve the SAT problem? Most 2400 SAT students do well in college. Some flunk out.</p>
<p>People with average SAT scores? Half never graduste from college. Many graduate with honors. Bill Bradley, BELOW average SAT, graduated with Honors ftom Princeton and is among the tiny number of Princeton grads to win a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford.</p>
<p>Bill Bradley’s outstanding record at Princeton was thr result of who he was: he had a relentless drive to be the best at any task he took on. He was well-organized. He was an expert time manager who was studying every minute on the bus to a game.<br>
He also was a leader, at Princeton, at Oxford, and in the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>So, how do colleges find people like Nelson Mandela, John Kerry, FDR, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Al Gore and Bill Bradley? People who become leaders and who change the world. Look for drive, character, ambition, passion, leadership. Multiple choice tests? Not much help.</p>
<p>Harvard knows that some applicants with an 1800 SAT have the character traits that ensure that they will br a success at Harvard and make an impact on the world.</p>
<p>And Harvard also knows that many 2400 SAT applicants will be that 50 year old fraud investigator at an insurance company who manages to work his 33 year old SAT score into a random conversation at least once a week.</p>