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Any data on the correlation between SAT score and dropout rate?

• BeetleB 10y ago
  Not really. Just me waving my cane around (i.e. anecdotal) :-) I think what I was trying to say was that getting around 1050 (out of 1600) is very easy as long as you are willing to study. If you do not have the discipline for 1050 (and it really requires very little discipline - most smart students will get a higher score without studying at all), then you likely will not have the discipline to self study in college.
  • khedoros1 10y ago
    I just looked at numbers from years close to mine (2003, but found 2004-2005 data). 1020 was the 50%ile score.
    • BeetleB 10y ago
      Well, OK. It doesn't negate my main point. If 50% can get into a state school, then it is not very competitive in the US. (BTW, I didn't mean to imply 1050 was my school's requirement. I just happen to know it was above the requirement as I knew several students who got in with scores around 1050...)
      • khedoros1 10y ago
        I wasn't trying to contradict or negate what you said, just tot provide further context around the number that you used.
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    > I think what I was trying to say was that getting around 1050 (out of 1600) is very easy as long as you are willing to study. It's designed for 1000 to be the median result of the population taking the test (though it hasn't been renormed, AFAIK, since 1990, and the 1990 renormed was because on both halves the actual results had drifted down from 500 medians since the original design half a century earlier, so there may have been some drift, though there have been a lot less of the kind of changes in population taking the test than those that drove the earlier drift.)