<p>I think I agree with you to an extent (and your argument was much more coherent when I got around your typo and realized that you meant “The people who take classes and get 2400s are NO MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN those who don’t take classes”), but let me play devil’s advocate here: </p>
<p>Isn’t everyone, with the exceptions of those who were brought up with little to no education, provided with the tools necessary to answer every question on the SAT? What if it’s a matter of information retention and application as opposed to knowledge? I mean, not everyone goes out of his or her way to study vocabulary or “arbitrary grammatical rules”; these are the types of things that one picks up throughout life. And isn’t the ability to pick up on these things and apply them when necessary closely correlated with intelligence?</p>