Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
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Job application asked for my SAT scores
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#12"You're partly making your decision based on who someone was as a 17 year old." Sure, but IQ tests show a high degree of stability over a person's life. It's not unreasonable to be interested in it for sorting.
SAT isn’t an IQ test, and probably all sorts of people took it before they had cultural awareness or a diagnosis that would have lead to different testing conditions had it been taken after diagnosis, let alone the fact that test scores are not comparable.
GPAs similarly not comparable over large time ranges, schools, or degrees without normalization you can’t get.
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#13"You're partly making your decision based on who someone was as a 17 year old." Sure, but IQ tests show a high degree of stability over a person's life. It's not unreasonable to be interested in it for sorting.
Can you say the same for SAT tests, where the score is best of N and N is however many the person can afford and varies between candidates?
And the meaning of the score changes over the years based on the test itself changing. Same goes for the company's GPA requirements where there have clearly been shifts across schools on the amount of grade inflation allowed or even encouraged.
As an aside, I'm not sure if I or the College Board can prove my score at this point.
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#14Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
I can remember mine just fine.
If you're really looking for smart people, use "Answer this word problem in two or more paragraphs. Write your answer on the sheet of paper provided. In cursive."
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#15Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
Sneaky immigration filter?
Most wont have an SAT score at all
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#16"You're partly making your decision based on who someone was as a 17 year old." Sure, but IQ tests show a high degree of stability over a person's life. It's not unreasonable to be interested in it for sorting.
I dislike this argument. I think in some dimensions these types of tests can work, but I’ve never been the type of person who’s been able to score well, and I don’t test particularly well in general, yet I did my PhD work at and have had a great career despite this. I think that testing is good for people who can be adequately evaluated, but for people like me it just leads to a lifetime of feeling like something’s wrong with you.
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#17I just applied to Epic, the EHR company from Wisconsin, and I can confirm that they also ask for SAT scores. Thankfully I have my collegeboard credentials saved
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#18Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
I remember mine (both from when I was 12 and when I was 17) close to 30 years later.
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#19Sneaky age filter? You must be young enough to remember your SAT scores.
Between 2005 and 2015 the maximum score was 2400 instead of 1600. Assuming anyone who got But of course this is a lot of unnecessary steps compared to the usual method: length of work and education history +18 years.