Good subject scores/lower SAT

Debruns
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:53:03 +0000

I"ve seen blogs where parents have said the same thing and I think it will show your daughter more clearly than the entire SAT.
This study from Univ. of CA,Berkeley seems to agree. This is it in part:
For over a decade, Mr. Geiser has been studying standardized tests, specifically related to subsequent performance by students enrolled at the University of California campuses. In a research paper released in July by the center at Berkeley, “Back to Basics: In Defense of Achievement (and Achievement Tests) in College Admissions,” Mr. Geiser concluded that “admissions criteria that tap student mastery of curriculum content, such as high-school grades and performance on achievement tests, are stronger predictors of success in college and are fairer to low-income and minority applicants than tests of general reasoning such as the SAT.” Geiser found that “achievement tests were consistently superior to the SAT in predicting college outcomes, including outcomes for poor and minority students.”

The NACAC committee’s common sense recommendations should cause colleges everywhere to re-examine how they are using the SAT I to evaluate applicants. Hopefully, many of those colleges will drop the SAT I requirement and rely more heavily on subject tests.