<p>or is this generation smarter than the high school students 5 years ago? Or is it because everyone does test prep these days (but there were prep courses back then too)?</p>
<p>I notice that the SAT medians for some state schools are now sitting at 2150 or 2200+, which would be a score of well over 1430 and been competitive for schools in the top 20 in the early 2000s.</p>
<p>What is the meaning of this disparity. For example: <a href="http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/students/admissions/SATGPA-F04.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/students/admissions/SATGPA-F04.pdf</a></p>
<p>Is each group becoming more brilliant as we continue into the future? Will our grand children have IQs of 150?</p>
<p>Probably a bit of both – intellect and test simplification.</p>
<p>In regard to AP, some exams no longer dish out the penalty of a quarter-point for each wrong answer (such as AP US History and AP English Lang & Comp). If you ask me, that’s weak, but at the same time, the quarter-point penalty isn’t too fair, either.</p>
<p>Which state schools have SAT medians over 2200 or even 2150? Based on College Board info, it wouldn’t appear to be the suspects that come to mind - Cal, Mich, Va</p>
<p>Nevermind. I was using ************** and didn’t realize that the median scores given were for people who made a profile on the website; self-selection bias. I just looked at collegedata.com for enrolled numbers.</p>
<p>If you learn the test inside and out it becomes easy.</p>