Thoughts on SAT II Scores?

TiggerDad
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 04:11:54 +0000

I just posted this elsewhere, so I’m going to just copy and paste here:

SAT, SATII and ACT scores are like tallness in NBA. You need to be pretty tall to make the NBA roster, but beyond that point, tallness makes no difference. Just as someone 7’ tall isn’t necessarily a better player than someone 6’ 6" (remember one M. Jordan?), scoring 800 isn’t any better than someone scoring 780 as far adcoms are concerned. Colleges know that there’s NO correlation between high test scores and success, for which reason they decided to go “holistic” in admissions approach.

Yeah, you were told wrong. The analogy I used is from Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers,” by the way. Move on.