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blossom:
SAT scores are a datapoint. One datapoint for a small group of companies in particular industries.</p>
<p>Nobody is going to get hired based on the name of their college or their major. Nobody is getting hired based on their GPA. Nobody gets hired because of a leadership role in an EC. Nobody gets hired because they were a Rhodes finalist. Nobody is getting hired solely due to their personality (except for maybe a reality show contestant). And nobody is getting hired based on their writing skills (solely) or their skill at Matlab or doing DCF analysis or because they wrote a senior thesis which won the university prize that year.
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<p>However, for “elite” or otherwise highly competitive jobs (like with highly selective colleges), most of the various criteria are ways to screen out applicants, rather than ways to bring in hires.</p>