Actually it was the opposite. Several of my relatives scored very well on LSAT and GMAT 95 -99 while only getting a 1100-1200 or so on the SAT ( no idea what that percentile was but I know it would have made most ivies out of reach wo a hook)
I have a cousin who went UPenn undergrad during Vietnam wo hooks and ended up at some foreign med school because of his Mcats, nice guy would have interviewed well