<p>@luca12
I’m glad you added such an insightful comment. I never thought of it that way! You make a great point; those of us who have lived in an environment where education is a priority don’t understand how different it would be to live in circumstances where it isn’t.</p>
<p>Hardly. If that were true, you’d expect that someone with a 2200 would be able to take another SAT in one month and get a 2400.</p>
<p>Clearly, this isn’t true. There’s a huge difference between the adequate intelligence of getting a 2200 and the higher intelligence of consistently scoring a perfect score.</p>
<p>So… where you born with “adequate intelligence” vs born with “adequate melanin”. Who deserves credit? Which is “rarer”? Which is “meritorious”? Who decides?</p>
<p>Who “consistently” scores a perfect score? Someone who takes it once, gets a 2400, and then decides to take it again to prove their superior intelligence?</p>
<p>maybe on the practice tests?</p>
<p>Sadly, the correlation between SAT score and “intelligence” is rather weak according to today’s studies, not to mention “intelligence” itself is near impossible to measure. </p>
<p>I would not bother directly associating intelligence with sat score here, unless you are talking about “intelligent at taking the sat”.</p>
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I was obviously referring to practice tests. You have to be able to consistently do few mistakes to get that 2400, or you’re subject to the chances of fate.</p>
<p>NDieJaedong: Do you have any actual evidence to back yourself up?</p>
<p>Yeah, SAT is kinda odd to measure. I never got it, really but the thing I hear is that colleges judge SAT scores based on the school you come from and income. So, my scores are meaningless to rich kids, that’s just a minimum because they can study more and such. But because my schools average SAT score is so low and I mean, really those “blue” books everyone keeps mentioning? They have only a handful at the school for kids to check out and it’s on a “first come first serve” basis. I got one, but never used it, lent it to a friend and that’s the last I saw of it but she did turn it back in at the end of the year so I didn’t care. I did get this free surescore red book (that they hand out to anyone who just asks I think), not as thick as the blue but it had vocab words that I looked over and I took the practice test out of it. I used it over the blue because I could write in it and felt like taking a practice. I do read a lot, like not that I need to buy books, there’s a library. I never got buying books when there’s a library, that just seems like wasting money. So I read a lot and I’m good at math and that’s all there is to it. Maybe I could have done better with some tutor or more studying, I don’t know and don’t care. All I know is that schools don’t really expect high SAT scores from poorer kids and that “need-blind” is a lie when they can tell from being in an inner city school that you likely aren’t rich. So my teacher was like “oh they won’t expect this high a score from you! it’s great!” and that’s all I left it at.</p>