Swarthmore vs Haverford vs Harvey Mudd

swatparent
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:57:11 +0000

"Harverford:
CR 640-760
Math 650-740

Swat:
CR 680-780
Math 680-760

Mudd:
CR 690-760
Math 740-800"

“He is obviously basing this on SAT scores and the assumption that SAT correlates positively to IQ and, as such, a school with a higher average SAT score among its students has a higher average IQ and, thus, that the students are smarter. You can decide for yourself whether you think this is valid.”

All that these scores show is that HM’s math SAT scores are slightly higher, due to the fact that they have engineering students. One could argue that verbal SAT scores correlate more with intelligence, and math SAT scores more with the ability to do rote HS math.

Or one could argue that above a certain score level, SAT scores indicate nothing beyond an ability to do 1st year college work, which seems to be the view of many educators.