<p>I've never seen any threads on CC that ask this same question. I'm guessing somewhere out there, there's a study that analyzes the comparison between SAT scores, and the success of undergrads in applying to grad school, med school, law school, etc,. If anyone has any info on this i'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>First off… College is not hard. More than anything it’s just how well you can manage your time, and the number of hours you are willing to hit the books.</p>
<p>In college, you will have so much free time, and this could potentially be the death of you if you choose to put off your readings and do something else hoping to catch up later. </p>
<p>If you’re half way competent, and manage your time well and put in the hours you should be able to get out with atleast a 3.5 (with a few excetions ex. U of Chicago).</p>
<p>Not to be rude, but that wasnt the question i was asking.</p>
<p>check this out: [SAT</a> I: A Faulty Instrument For Predicting College Success | FairTest](<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org/facts/satvalidity.html]SAT”>SAT I: A Faulty Instrument For Predicting College Success - Fairtest)</p>
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<p>there is a lot more after that. i would encourage everyone to read this article it’s pretty interesting.</p>
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this does not specifically answer your question but it does offer some insight.</p>
<p>thats very interesting. thanks, id also like opinions if anyone has any.</p>
<p>Not aware of any studies that compare SAT scores with success in admission to graduate programs. One of the barriers to having an accurrate study is that grad schools in the admission process do not require anyone to submit any record of what their SAT might have been and thus you do not have a database to go to to easily acquire the information needed to make any comparisons.</p>
<p>the SAT is probably irrelevant to success in admission to graduate programs because the SAT is an extremely unreliable predictor of undergraduate success (Fair Test).</p>
<p>anyways, from what i’ve heard, it seems as though once you go to college all of your high school success is pretty much erased and you have to start all over again. i think that’s why so many people who are succesful in high school and know what they want to do in life try to get into ba/md or ba/ms programs.</p>
<p>I think there may be a stronger correlation with law and med school admissions than with grad school admissions, because LSAT and MCAT scores are much more important than GRE’s for their respective programs. Being a great test-taker won’t benefit you too much for grad school admissions, since many will say the GRE scores are the least important factor. LOR’s are so much more important at this level.</p>
<p>Bulls365, depending upon where you go to college, it can be very hard. My daughter goes to Amherst and it is extremely rigorous. The amount of reading that students have to cover and the papers and projects, require an enormous amount of time and effort. My daughter has friends at Harvard and they report that it is also extremely difficult. Ditto for Swartmore. These are all extremely high achieving students but many colleges don’t have snap courses and easy As. So, it would be a mistake for students to think that they can enter some colleges and believe it won’t be difficult.</p>
<p>no correlation</p>
<p>Much better information can be found here: </p>
<p>[Rebecca</a> Zwick, Ph.D. -](<a href=“http://www.education.ucsb.edu/netshare/rzwick/publications.html]Rebecca”>http://www.education.ucsb.edu/netshare/rzwick/publications.html)</p>
<p>wow that was really good. thank you madame</p>
<p>Wasn’t the original purpose of the SAT to determine how well you’d do in your first year of college? I’m not saying there’s a correlation, but it was designed with that in mind, I believe.</p>
<p>THE SAT IS NOT A PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN COLLEGE. PERIOD.</p>
<p>Its used simply and solely for admissions offices to separate the wheat from the chaff and then only with a very blunt instrument.</p>
<p>I could do a PhD thesis on this topic and then some. Plenty of anecdotal stories of kids with lower or low SAT’s who EXCEL in college, and plenty with high or higher who fail.</p>
<p>Success in college is about motivation, maturity, preparation, consistency, clean lifestyles, passion, and many other factors…most of which have NOTHING whatever to do with the SAT exam.</p>
<p>Kids who failed chemistry in high school who do fine in college. Or kids who got an A in chemistry in high school and failed it in college. </p>
<p>I was the poster boy for underperformers in high school except for those few classes I loved. I went in the military (yes, it was the end of the Vietnam era though I was not sent to Vietnam..but would have gone if they sent me orders) and when I returned to start college I was motivated in the extreme…and did amazingly well in college. </p>
<p>But the SAT is a fact of life and its become a bigger factor than it ever was intended to be, sadly. So it will either open doors for you or close them. It is what it is.</p>
<p>But move on after you accept your offer of admission no matter where that is. Prove yourself in college by being a strong student, and have fun too.</p>
<p>Perhaps there might not be a correlation with undergrad success, but do you think there’s a correlation with med school/law school admissions? If you do well on the SAT, then you’re a good test-taker (does anyone disagree?), and med/law schools weigh MCAT/LSAT exams heavily, so I would think there would be some correlation there.</p>
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i’d have to say i disagree. if you do well on the SAT, then you’re good at taking the SAT. if it meant you were a good test taker in general, then why do some people score significantly better on the SAT than on the ACT, or vice versa?</p>
<p>anyways you can’t really compare the MCAT/LSAT to the SAT. the MCAT and LSAT are more similar to AP exams in that they cover a specific curriculum. there are many kids who do well on the SAT/ACT but not well on AP exams.</p>
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<p>Are you suggesting that there is a correlation between AP exam success and MCAT/LSAT success? or rather that there isn’t any correlation at all?</p>
<p>There isn’t any college in the country that prefers lower rather than higher SAT-scorers among otherwise similar students.</p>
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i guess what i said is kind of confusing. anyways, i am suggesting that there is no correlation at all.</p>
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i think that whether or not someone is successful in admissions to graduate programs has more to due with a person’s work ethic.</p>
<p>Well schools with the highest SAT ranges are generally the ones with the highest LSAT and MCAT scoring graduates, and the high LSAT/MCAT scoring graduates in turn end up at better law and medical schools. So, unless you believe that top colleges prepare students significantly better for these tests (possible, although rather unlikely), then it is likely that students with higher SAT scores will also score higher on later standardized tests for any number of reasons (motivation, intelligence, preparation, test taking skill, etc.).</p>