<p>25 - 35%</p>
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<p>In two years, I would estimate 35%. 30% in three years and 25% in four to five years.</p>
<p>I wasn’t including prestigious high schools where a 3.5 is exceptional in what I was saying. To say that the ACT/SAT doesn’t measure intelligence is BS. I’m also not trying to say that GPA doesn’t measure intelligence, it does as well. One has a greater opportunity to get a high GPA based on hard work, simply because there are many more aspects to it and no time constraints. The standardized tests are more of a measure of someone’s abilities to know basic information and to test well(I don’t give me the old “Some people are brilliant, they are just very bad test takers” quote. It may be true to a degree, but (a big) part of being smart is being able to take tests well). Two GPA’s can’t tell colleges who is smarter. Someone with a 3.7 at a very hard school might be 10 time smarter than a kid with a 4.0 at a tiny rural school. But test scores allow schools to compare people’s intelligence and skills on a standardized level. Therefore, I stand by my argument that if one kid has a 3.9 and a 28 and another has a 3.6 and a 32, the kid with the 32 is probably smarter. If their school profiles were similar, which only colleges can know, then the kid with the 28 is a harder worker. If people from similar high schools were compared in this situation, I would think/hope, that the college would pick the kid with the 28 and the 3.9 because while he may not be as smart as the other student, he is close and a much harder worker. Of course, this is excluding the many other factors of consideration that could change the decision.</p>
<p>stewta4, your statements are gross generalizations that perhaps are true when taken over a large sample of students. Without knowing more about the individuals, it is not possible to conclude that a 3.6/32 is smarter than a 3.9/28.</p>
<p>res ipsa, of course my statements are based on large-scale generalizations. Don’t you think that an admissions council, who must review over 40,000 applicants, has to make some generalizations?</p>
<p>They make an effort to look beyond that. I suspect a student body made up solely of the applicants with the highest test scores would be less interesting than the one they admit. People are much more complex than the simple generalizations you are making about them based on a 3 and half hour multiple choice exam.</p>