SAT before 13th (urban legend or true?)

crowlady
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:24:21 +0000

@xiggi, where can we read more about what happened in the “Yale 2003 Early Admission debacle”?

I was trying to learn more about it and ran into an economics journal paper that uses game theory to understand EA and ED strategies (by school and maybe by applicants) http://www.stanford.edu/~jdlevin/Papers/EarlyAdmissions.pdf
I don’t understand it – will have to ask my son who took game theory at CTY (hah).

But to the original question, despite what someone said earlier, there are people who get anxious about standardized testing. I’d be interested to know if such people have less anxiety later if they have had a chance to take the test in realistic conditions when it doesn’t really matter. Could increase it, could decrease it.

I don’t see that there are enough advantages to justify sucking up time prepping for a test in middle school, unless the student wants to. Nor is it critical to make anybody take a three hour test they don’t have to take. But those who choose to do it often see a benefit.