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Many educators argue that high SAT scores are no more accurate a predictor of academic success than high school class ranking or grade averages. They also charge that SAT success can be learned, pointing to cram schools that promise, for substantial fees, to raise students' scores by 100 points or more. After a two-year study, Dr. Stuart Katz, a University of Georgia psychologist, concluded last March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading...
...thesis advisors, is unnecessarily exclusive. As an intellectually beneficial experience, theses are democratic: all students, not just the top-ranked, can benefit from them. The entire premise of these new restrictions--that lower-ranked students produce lower-quality research--is tenuous at best. Grades often are not an accurate predictor of thesis success...