"Oh, and over-achiever eh!?"
Wrong. I've got a B.A., a B.S. and a M.A., and am doing quite well in my career.
The SAT, ACT, GRE, etc., are all worthless.
That’s ridiculous. If you worked in finance, high tech, the sciences, or some other field where IQ really matters—which I’m guessing you don’t—you’d well know the correlation between such scores and intelligence.
Doesn’t mean people can’t and don’t do very well in life with more limited intelligence. In some ways, at some levels, limited intelligence can make life easier.
But it’s silly to claim there’s not a correlation between intelligence and these tests, and that for a number of situations high intelligence really matters.
You still have not told us why these tests are worthless. That you got into higher education and as a result, are doing well in the job market, presumably because you passed them, does not argue against them.
Please elucidate. I am interested in what you have to say.
Yes and no. When selecting between two candidates in the 95th percentile, other factors like work ethic and other personality factors become much more important than the fact that one was 95th percentile and the other was 97th percentile.
When selecting students for a school where the average graduate was in the 95th SAT percentile, and you have an applicant in the 40th percentile, it's cruel to toss him into the shark tank.