<p>"SATs don't determine whether your smart or dumb."</p>
<p>*you're</p>
<p>Einstein was considered mentally retarded during the early part of his life. Test scores are important to show if someone earned their high GPA and to make people like me feel better about my crappy GPA but good score. Haha. Many colleges are eliminating the test score requirement, which I don't completely agree with. I see the merit in it, but not at the same time.</p>
<p>SATs are only a part of the application. they partly depend on test-taking skills, verbal, math and writing skills and hard work. i know a lot of smart people who did bad on the SATs but i don't know any dumb people that did good. that means u cud underperform but never overperform. they are only a very small part of the whole thing.</p>
<p>Hmmm... to be fair, my rank suck like heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell since grade inflation is ridiculous at my school. The guy who share my rank scored a 1960 on his SATs and that's after studying for a whole summer... IDK... I think SATs aren't good indications of anything... our valedictorian (read "no-life")scored a 2160... I guess it all depends
Oh, and the perfect people I mentioned on pg 1? They were from a local private school, I met them at a party :)</p>
<p>SATs to me aren't a great indicator of intelligence. The one time I took the SATs it was in my junior year and I scored 660m, 700v, 650w yet I consider myself to be much better at math than english. On the writing part I got a 6 on my essay yet only missed 4 of the multiple choice. I got a 3 on my AP Lang exam and placed 1st this year and 3rd last year on the AMC12 at my school (moved on to AIME). On the Math and Lit SAT2s I scored 690 and 700. In my opinion, the SAT should just be used to check for any substantial grade inflation and then admission should come down to grades and ECs.</p>
<p>I prefer standardized tests over grades. Tests (like SAT IIs and AP exams) show how much you know and not how hard you try.</p>
<p>The SAT is <em>NOT</em> an intelligence test - it is an achievement test, measuring what you have learned...you can study for the darn thing...it's not measuring your intelligence. The test was started for Harvard to determine scholarship recipients. </p>
<p>There are plenty of psychological, social, and economic reasons why this test is seriously flawed; however, it is one of only a minute number of metrics available nationwide that is standardized - that's why it continues to be used. </p>
<p>The only thing the SAT truly measures is one's analytical abilities. Though they call the verbal section "critical reasoning" now, it still only measures your ability to analyze text and language. The writing section does not measure your ability to write well (only a very small portion of the writing score is from the essay you write). Nothing on the SAT measures your creative achievements or abilities, your experiential learning abilities, or your communication skills - all things colleges also are very interested in because they are necessary for you to succeed in college and LIFE. </p>
<p>If your ego is attached to your SAT, get over yourself...there are many more important things in life than your SAT score - many more critical skills to life success that are not measured by it. It does not measure your intelligence - it measures what you've been taught and how well you've been taught it. No wonder poorer students tend to do poorly on the SAT.</p>
<p>There are many different kinds of "intelligence." If you score very high on the SAT, then it's safe to assume that you are quite intelligent in at least one sense. On the other hand, someone who scores poorly on the SAT might still be very intelligent in a way that doesn't show up on the test.</p>
<p>I know of people who are extremely bad at calculus who score well on the Math SAT. There are also people who do calculus very well who just can't do Math SAT. It's really kind of odd how there's little correlation between the two...</p>