Accepted... now what?

[Creekland]

<p>In my experience with high school math students, their SAT or ACT score is very predictive of their current math knowledge. Anyone scoring 650/30 or above has a decent shot of doing well in college as far as their academic foundation is concerned. 700 or above scores have a really good shot. Those with scores in the 500 range tend to not do so well in MATH DEPENDENT majors. They may be stellar college students in other fields, so if considering a non-math dependent field I wouldn’t let a low score deter a student.</p>

<p>That said, I agree with everything stated in the quote below:</p>

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There are other, far more important issues for parents to address with their kids. There is probably a pretty direct correlation between study habits and grades: students who keep up on their reading and regularly attend classes probably do much better than students who procrastinate with their reading, and then skip class because they haven’t done the reading. Students who start working on term papers at the beginning of the semester do better than those who start their work the week before the paper is due. None of that has anything to do with SAT scores.

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<p>An SAT/ACT score is just the base knowledge in two subjects (and quick science/graph reading ability in the ACT). It does matter for some majors and not for others, but other factors also come into play. </p>

<p>Does a student want to be a Spanish or Art major? I wouldn’t let scores sway anything. Do they want to be Pre-med or Engineering? Then I would.</p>