<p>Very interesting thread!</p>
<p>Both Mini and Xiggi seem to be making very valid points. I’d love to see or hear more information on the subject. </p>
<p>Taxguy, do you know if there is a variance in predictability between the high/mid/low scores?</p>
<p>I know that the SAT seemed to be a big add-on in junior year for our daughter–providing for a lot of extra studying and anxiety for the test itself, at one of the more anxious times in a child’s life (science projects etc.).</p>
<p>“the test is not responsible for admissions; the policies of the colleges and the interpretations of the adcoms are responsible for building the classes of freshmen. It is the job of school officials to interpret the relative strength of a 1300 score from a Bhutanese son of goatherder and the relative weakness of a 1450 from an Exonian who lives on Fifth Avenue.” (Xiggi)</p>
<p>If SAT’s scores correlate to income, do SAT scores also represent “ability-to-pay” to adcoms? I ask because I wonder if that might mitigate some of the Solomon like wisdom we might expect from an adcom who offers to cut-the-baby-in-two.</p>