I say that because there are so many factors outside of the tester's control that "fortunate" is the best word I can think of to describe success/failure. Someo

I say that because there are so many factors outside of the tester's control that "fortunate" is the best word I can think of to describe success/failure. Someone could have been born without whatever genetic pedigree would help them score better, which is pure chance. Someone could have been born into a family situation which precluded them from a serious academic regimen which would enable them to score better, which is pure chance. Someone could have taken the test at a location where some asshole flushed a cherry bomb that morning and blew up the one toilet available for test takers (that happened when I took the SAT), and the resulting distraction could have impacted their score. Because of this, I don't believe performance on a standardized test correlates with anything meaningful. I certainly don't believe your ACT score in 7th grade is meaningful in any way. I think you're really just starting a pissing contest with the unfortunate side effect that everybody here has to get wet. Don't do that. From the provided citation, it seems that the 75% SAT score is 1200 without the new writing section. That would be 200 points above the standardized average, which means that your point that most of the school exhibits poor academic performance is patent bullshit. It may not be MIT, but Linfield College surely has its place and it is certainly not your place to throw your weight around like you're Scott Aaronson and claim that the college is incapable of academic work. Go out and do something worthwhile instead of insulting strangers. For the record, I have not taken the ACT but I have taken the SAT, the GRE and the Stanford-Binet IQ test. My scores on each were high enough that they render the tests virtually meaningless when it comes to measuring my "intelligence." They have no more measure of "intelligence" than my golf handicap or mile time have of my "athleticism."