Yes, it absolutely has an impact on which colleges will give your application the time of day, assuming you want to go to an institution worth going to.

Second, the SAT does not measure intelligence, it measures achievement – two completely different concepts.

Dude, if you can write one pentatonic scale, you can write them all. Don’t get all high and mighty, okay?

The SAT is born from a need to have something standardized by which to compare all students. Although grades and GPA are a good indicator of a student’s academic strength, grades vary greatly between teachers within a school, not to mention between schools and between states. A 100 in one class might translate to a 90 in the same class somewhere else. The SAT, however, is the same no matter where or when you take it.

Ultimately, though, the SAT merely judges one thing: how well can you take the SAT? Obviously, this has little practical value and cannot be taken as a measure of intelligence (nor does it ever claim to; the acronym once stood for Scholastic Aptitute Test, but today, it means absolutely nothing, just SAT). But here’s the thing: in a way, it’s still a valid test for college admissions because the kids who do well on it are the kids who took the time to study for it, the kids who sat down with their test prep books and cracked down. And guess what? Those are the kids who have the learning skills that will help them do well in college. So perhaps indirectly, the SAT is a decent indicator of future college performance.

The SAT does matter

The SAT does not measure intelligence

The SAT used to be an aptitude test, and is now an achievement test. It measures what you know, and a few of the things that you can do. It is designed to be a standard measure that can be used to compare students from a variety of backgrounds, schools, regions, and states. It is ethnically biased a little (ETS has some good data on that) and income/wealth biased a lot (also ETS data). While it may not measure the specific stuff you know well, it is a general measure.

all i know is transript which is how you do in these past three years second was your sat score ,third was after-school projam such as join math team , science lab, gym, chesse,debate team , leadership , volunteer , coummmity service , art , music , cheerleader.and also i think some university even want your ap score and how many ap you got .especially ivy such as most reject university harvard , columbia, yale , princeton ,stanford . i know in 2007 harvard most prestigious university reject over 91 percent of student in us an dinternational countries from going to harvard . even some score over 800 on math or verbal they been reject by harvard.now don’t give up if you have more than two years or more , you need to buy a dcitionary such as most recommended webster ,longman, oxford just study those word you don’t know about you just underline the word you dont’t understand and memory word to word . if you could memory 15 word that good enough , if you have less than a years go and buy barron how to prepare for the sat and memory those words and latin root they help you a lot . i used to suck at vocabulary ,but after memory ten thousand of word when you read like classical book called scarlet letter ., it would’t become a problem. and by the way clairvoyant mean a person who could predict the future.it depend what graded you are in if you are 10 grade i think you should work as a hard as possible on transcript .if you are 8 grade i think you should study more on sat than transcript . as long as you could get 68 on average on all subject you find and not going summer school waste your time in that stupuid class ans spend summer on dictionary . if youy are 9 grade just get 85 on every subject and begin to study less and less on sat and focus more on transcript .

Yes, the SAT matters. It is worth it. It is a way to compare students from different backgrounds. It tests verbal, writing, and math skills. These skills are important in all disciplines. Even if you are a music major you will have to know a little something about numbers and you will have to be able to read and write.

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They matter. You can’t get into a college worth a damn without a decent score. They test your scholastic apptitude. Hence the name. I don’t think it is worth it, but regardless, they are used and therefore important.