<p>bearcats, trust me, those are in the VAST minority. Testing is, for the most part, mocked in my community. We have long decided to discontinue them because ability and potential cannot be measured. They just cannot. And even companies that unwisely chose to use those tests do so as a means to wilt down their candidate list, not to sort out successful candidates from unsuccessful candidates. I hope you cease believing in those “magical” tests because they really are meaningless.</p>
<p>Clyde, I agree that OOS students tend to appraoch the SAT differently, but OOS students make up one third of the student body. The remaining students are in-staters. It is in-state students who typically invest very little time and money on standardized tests. Like most OOS students (and like the majority of students at private universities), I prepared for the SAT for two full years. The in-state students I knew at Michigan prepared much, much less for the SAT. Back in my day, it was clearly spelled out; A 0.1 GPA advantage in one’s GPA weighed more than a 300 (out of 1600) point difference on the SAT. So you can imagine where in-state applicants focused most of their efforts. Although the forumal is no longer used, everybody in the state of Michigan knows how little trust and weight Michigan places on standardized tests.</p>