How predictive are these things in terms of academic aptitude and success?
SAT's
Gavin Reyes
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Owen Sullivan
No. Got a 630 on the Math SATs and graduated with honors in Math with a 3.9
Nicholas Jenkins
What the hell is an SAT?
639 out of what?
3.9 is "GPA" or something, and out of 4??
Isaiah Smith
No. They overprioritize your ability to work in unrealistic time crunches.
Joshua Kelly
tfw took so many duel enrollment classes in high school that I entered college as a transfer and never had to deal with this faggotry
feels good
Josiah Green
>duel enrollment
How kids did you dhoot at 10 paces?
Sebastian Bell
kek
Levi Davis
I go to Harvard and every I know is both really smart and made good SAT/ACT test scores so I would say near perfect predictor.
Jeremiah James
>he doesn't know what Google is
Jack Diaz
>We analyze 5 years of student records at the University of Oregon to estimate the probability of success in Physics and Mathematics as a function of SAT-M score
>in almost all majors (e.g., English, History, Sociology, Biology, etc.) students with combined (math + reading) scores well below 1000 (i.e., below the average among all SAT-takers) achieved in-major, upper division GPAs in excess of 3.5 and even 4.0.
>However, two majors stood out as qualitatively different from the others. In the cases of Physics and of pure Mathematics, the pattern of upper GPA versus SAT-M showed a sharp threshold: no student below approximately SAT-M = 600 was able to attain the 3.5 upper GPA typically required for admission to a Ph.D. program. A small fraction of students with SAT-M score at or above 600 attained upper GPA > 3.5; it seems plausible that these were the most conscientious and determined of students at this ability level.