<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>
<p>I would say no. There are other ways of guessing at income: by zip code (eg. Scarsdale), by prep/vs. inner city school; by ECs (Mini’s example of fencing), history of travel and summer internships vs. jobs, parental professions, and so forth.</p>