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In addition to hooked students, you also have students who had lower scores due to having little/no test preparation, having an off day during the exam (sick, nervous, trouble sleeping the night before, etc.) and only the test once, not being good at this type of multi-hour test; and the university was able to look past the score and see that they deserved to be at the college. One problem with this type of considering test scores for jobs is you don’t account for reasons for lower scores. When you have one candidate who does well on every aspect of the job hiring criteria except for SAT scores, I’d expect a good portion of them would be this type of student who had a valid reason for the lower scores. In contrast, the hooked developmental kid or star quarterback likely won’t do as well on some of the other hiring criteria, so the SAT score likely won’t make a difference in the hiring decision.</p>