coping with a low SAT score

enfieldacademy
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:28:34 +0000

I’ve noticed a small subset of kids who get very, very sad about their SAT score. most people (who get lower scores) can brush it off as not meaning anything about them, not measuring anything important (even though it does - this thing many of us value called intelligence).

But there are a handful of kids with usually SAT scores in the range of 1700-1900, which realize for the first time via the SAT that they simply don’t have the intelligence to due what they had wanted to do in life, and what they had come to value.

How do we help these people best…?