re: #279 Naso Tang

You need to back that statement up with something more concrete, other than the suggesting that all college administrations and professors are idiots for wasting time with it.

Research it. Just look at the validity numbers on SAT testing. Really, this is well-established. Many administrators talk about the mistake of relying on SAT scores, but they feel trapped. Many, very good schools, have moved completely away from using SAT scores.

High school grades correlate better with college performance - but that is also complicated.

Even the very notion of pre-judging how students will do is very complicated, and is based on a very restricted notion of students. Flexibility and confidence and diligence and toughness are all character traits that correlated well with success in college. How do you measure them with a standardized test? How do you measure them with grades or an essay? How do you know what conditions a student overcame to become the person they are when they are applying?

It’s really all a numbers game. They have more students applying than they can admit - so they pick a largely random variable to measure, and then tell themselves that it is valid (meaning that it actually measures what it is intended to measure).