<p>do you guess agree with that? of course there are exceptions, but generally, do you agree with rich people scoring higher on SATs?
personally, i took a course and still didn't do that well, and later studied to end up with a 1400 :(</p>
<p>1400 is high. True about rich people.</p>
<p>umm...well not particularly many rich ppl are so careless about studying since they depend on the money so they may feel that the sat is beneth them...lol but i spoz rich ppl can spend more monmy on courses and books.. but i think its mostly a luck thing</p>
<p>Scores tend to correlate with income. That's because the more well off people are likely to have highly educated parents, access to resources such as books, computers, and to be in excellent public or private schools plus have access to tutors and other test prep.</p>
<p>it is statistically true. but you could be very, very poor and still get a 1600 if you really want to. it might be harder than if you were seriously rich, but there are lots of ways to study and learn everything you need to know. I know that at lots of schools there's free tutoring by teachers and stuff. regardless of the statistics, being poor is little excuse for you doing worse than someone else and them being rich is little excuse for them doing better than you. its a test of what you know and how you think, not of how much money your parents make.</p>
<p>It's a simple fact that rich people are themselves better educated (at least for the most part) and they pass this on to their kids. A person's wealth also would allow him to concetrate more on the kid's education and the kid's daily life. </p>
<p>Take for example a poor family where the parents are either constantly working to make ends meet and have less time to dedicate to their children. These children, left without guidance and naturally lacking in common sense as most children do, will not pick up War and Peace but rather spend their time watching MTV. The poor parent who doesn't work, in contrast to the one just described, is probably not capable of positively influencing his kids (OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUSLY, not true in all cases, as most of the things I said, these are only generalizations). </p>
<p>Rich parents who usually spend a greater amount of time in highly educated society have completely different people over for dinner on Sunday afternoon. Doctors, Lawyers, Businessman, scientists, engineers. Their kids (especially those in the latter teens) spend time being influenced by educated people. The fact that those kids are constantly communicating with people who speak in a higher vocabulary alone should improve a kids word capacity and "common sense". </p>
<p>This, amongst a myriad, of other unquantifiable factors, is the reason that "Rich" kids do better than poor kids on standarnized examinations. But this is only my humble opionion.</p>
<p>Ya rich parents most likely worked hard in school, and they would tend to pass that on to their kids.</p>
<p>I don't think there is really a right answer to this question. I go to an all girls boarding school with many rich girls, and many girls with financial aid. It happens that some girls who are not rich are getting 1500's, and the wealthiest girl I know has 1100. Also, any parent can neglect a child, regardless of their wealth, or reason.</p>
<p>Yes, it is true. It is impossible to argue otherwise. This is not a subjective question, it is a statistic. Scores correlate more strongly with income than any other factor. This is a FACT, there is no opinion to be had.</p>
<p>Now, it is important to keep in mind both that correlation is not causation, and also correlation is not absolute dependence.</p>
<p>Yes, this is true. I'm very poor and I have the low score, some kids with more money, whom I know, have higher score. But it also means that poor kids have greater potential, than rich.</p>
<p>Success in school also directly correlates with income, so, not coincidentally, test scores will correlate as well. There are numerous reasons for those correlations, including better schools with a more challenging curriculum (with honors and AP courses), more certificated teachers, better libraries, having books at home (so kids read), no need for kids to have a job, etc. etc</p>
<p>There was actually a congressional report on the corrolation between income and test scores. Back on the old CC board, someone had written about it, but the mod's had deleted the link back when links weren't allowed. I'll see if I can find the report.</p>
<p>It is overall true when you are looking a large populations, but there are pockets where this does not hold. If you are in a college community, there are often student type families who have very little money, but live wonderfully cultured lives, and the children in these communities tend to have very high test scores and well educated.</p>
<p>For the most part this is true and has been proven. Colleges definitely will get suspicious if they see someone living very comfortably financially and then scoring below a 1000 on the SAT for example. However, yes exceptions exist where a student from a low-income family scores the big 1600 or simply quite high. This can come from natural genius or self-study but the usual deal is that a student from a wealthy family can afford tutors, classes, and all the goodies that they sell at Border's and B&N to prep for the tests. That's one of the reasons I find the SAT tests to be, to some extent, unfair.</p>
<p>people with more income are usually more intelligent and intelligence is very highly determined by genetics so they're children will grow up in a wealthy environment and will score higher</p>
<p>to add to captain acid's point, I would say it is a combinatino of both innate intelligence (nature) and the environment the child is put in (nuture).</p>
<p>The surest way to score high on the college board tests is to work on academic intensely read a lot and do a lot of test prep. Of course, some kids have more of a predisposition to do well on tests than others. Kids with some attention deficit issues and other traits, often not severe enough to be considered LD or ADD, can , in particular, have problems with the tests. But you will see that certain groups of people, regardless, of income have kids who do very well on tests, because their lives often center on those activities that tend to bring the test scores up,</p>
<p>With this discussion, let's make sure we don't fall into the trap of blaming our financial situations for our success on a test. You alone are responsible for your actions and your success.</p>
<p>A side note to consider - I don't know the statistics, but from personal observations, this trend isn't quite as strong for the PSAT. Since the main reason anyone cares about the PSAT is to qualify for National Merit and get a scholarship, those who are rich and don't have to worry about paying for college didn't pay much attention to the PSAT.</p>
<p>I live in a high-income suburban neighborhood. While several of my friends' parents have already set aside money in the six digits to pay for college, my parents are scrambling to find me as many scholarships to apply to as possible because we don't have those same resources. However, my wealther friends (who I consider every bit as smart as me) all scored from 201-210 on the PSAT while I scored 232. Maybe it's just coincidence, but I did prepare like hell for that test.</p>