[NittanyLion]

With a national test like the SAT you get compared to your peers, not against your classmates at podunk high. Bottom line, getting rid of the SAT is a bad idea

And yet, contrary to your assertion, high school grades remain a better predictor of success than the SAT.

[gipper81]

And yet, contrary to your assertion, high school grades remain a better predictor of success than the SAT.

Right. Inflated high school grades are highly correlated statistically to inflated undergraduate grades especially at liberal state schools which are especially concerned about inflating the self-esteem of the inflated undergraduate population.

[9YearLurker]

Yes, but aren’t those college results at least partly based on students who were matched to appropriate colleges with the help of their SAT scores? That is, take an A student from your average inner-city school and drop him/her into Harvard and it’ll be a much bigger challenge than one so placed from a top competitive suburban school.

[freespirited]

And yet, contrary to your assertion, high school grades remain a better predictor of success than the SAT.

The difference is slight. But give the SAT a break. It has a couple of hours to assess someone. A high school GPA has four years.

Considering that, the predictive value of the SAT is pretty impressive. Furthermore, if you removed from the calculations some of the college courses that are not predicted well by the SAT because they have little academic content (e.g. art, dance), the predictive value of the SAT might very well be above the h.s. grade point average.