Current selections based on SAT scores do not adequately rate abilities in a discipline, explains Park.
Google leaves no stone unturned in its pursuit of brainiacs, even asking to see prospects' SAT scores.
Television and movies play to emotion (as do computer twitch games, which drag down kids' SAT scores).
Second, the early decision applicant pool typically has higher grades and SAT scores than the regular pool.
With all that math practice, Google could probably single-handedly raise the SAT scores of all high school students.
The winning students were selected on their SAT scores, written essays and face-to-face interviews with a Morehouse team.
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In 2007, about 900 SAT scores were canceled because of suspicion of cheating.
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Send off your SAT scores and an essay to Virtual, and get a piece of paper saying you are Ivy League material.
The skills gap exists not just in Silicon Valley, where jobs demand math SAT scores of 800 and an 80-hour workweek.
So then, how did I get accepted into Cornell University with a lower GPA (4.33) and SAT scores (2040) then you?
Princeton Review says that its prep courses raise kids' SAT scores by, on average, 200 points (a perfect score is 2400).
In reality, most of its unhooked admittees had SAT scores above 1500.
For now the correlation between test results and course performance is .45 (roughly the same as between SAT scores and college GPA).
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In 2012, SAT scores fell to their lowest level since tracking began.
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According to a number of studies, small differences in SAT scores, which you take before going to college, correlate with measurably higher incomes.
The average SAT scores fell sharply for 20 years, from 969 in 1961 to 890 in 1981, after which it staged a small rally.
Forging godly character, precept upon precept, surpasses SAT scores in importance.
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It is important to note that I ranked each college based on its 75th percentile SAT scores for math and critical reading (1600 scale) to assess selectivity.
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Students with lower-than-average SAT scores tended to have a stronger preference for schools known for athletic success, while students with higher SAT scores preferred institutions with greater academic quality.
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With property taxes rising across the country, we took a look at per-pupil spending in public schools and weighed it against student performance--SAT scores, SAT participation rates and graduation rates.
Another involved the collection of DNA samples from high-IQ individuals from the U.S. and other countries, including those with extremely high SAT scores, and those with a doctorate in physics or math from an elite university.
True to perception, 13% of these comments were positively gushy about Duke's players, its coach Mike Krzyzewski, its quirky arena (Cameron Indoor Stadium), its rabid fans (the Cameron Crazies) and the SAT scores these fans may have attained.
But I am tired of the way they whine about their interior decorators, their children's SAT scores, the two wrinkles that have shown up on their foreheads, and the new Saab, which has more problems than the old Jaguar.
The "eliteness" of a college is principally defined by the SAT scores of those admitted. (Georgetown's recent average: about 1350.) The Dale-Krueger paper reports on studies indicating that even modest differences in SAT are associated with measurably higher lifetime incomes.
To examine this phenomenon further, I ran multiple regression analyses with the party score as the dependent variable and various institutional data points (controlling for tuition, proportion of students receiving Pell grants, overall enrollment, average SAT scores and whether schools were public or private) as the independent variables.
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Thompson knew that they did not have the SAT scores or the money to make it to a college like Berry, but she was moved by their determination to make it in America, a land that Oo said was as different from their homelands as Earth is from sky.
Women hold almost all leadership positions in high school, where they also lead SAT reading scores and are catching up in math, and represent 57% of enrollment in four-year colleges, Spar said.
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And with little increase in the size of admission staffs at most colleges, schools are using SAT and ACT scores to make a fast, easy cut of the applicant pool.
Even the well off must shine (absent a seven- or eight-figure contribution to their kid's first-choice school): Their SAT and ACT scores must be in the superior range if they are to avoid the triage performed by the most selective colleges, inundated as they are with applications.
Standardized test (SAT and ACT) scores are less and less important.
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