Science and Tech Schools Ranked by Math SAT

lsts
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:00:32 +0000

Phread128, what you say is true, but don’t see why it matters here. Why would the difference between intelligence and test-taking ability be variable by college?

At every school you’ll have people aren’t quite as smart but still made the cut because they coached for the test or whatever. The average aptitude is still higher where the average scores are higher, because it took a higher base ability to coach to a higher score (or higher base intelligence to do better with natural test skills, etc). University of Michigan is ~100 points above Michigan State. For every person who made it into UM by studying for those extra 100 points, there is someone who made it into Michigan State (instead of a college another step down) by the same methods.