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Grades you got on actual schoolwork are a much more obvious predictor. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-22/grades-vs-sat-scores-which-is-a-bett

• DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
  Grades from different schools are not equivalent. It's extremely difficult to compare grades from hundreds or thousands of different schools. You have to really know how rigorous each individual school's grade scale is.
  • elgenie 4y ago
    Grades from different schools are not remotely equivalent in representing material learned. However, they are comparable with respect to the hoop-jumping conscientiousness of the students involved, and there's a decent argument that it's the latter is what matters for successful completion of college.
    • DiogenesKynikos 4y ago
      Conscientiousness is not all that matters. Schools can vary widely in their level of academic difficulty. Top students who come from one school (to take one extreme example, Stuyvesant high school in New York, which has produced four Nobel Prize winners) may be on a completely different academic level than top students from the average school.
• titanomachy 4y ago
  Following the la times article’s link to its primary source, it also says: High school GPA as a predictor of college success results in a much higher representation of low income and underrepresented minority students in the top of the UC applicant pool, than do SAT scores.
• HarveyBungus 4y ago
  “The SAT score does not reflect your future possible success in college,” she said. “If you want it, you can do it.” Amen. I loosely put GPA in my "portfolio/body of work" mentally.