Sat Scores Quotes:

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

- Virginia Postrel

topic: Smart, Thinking, Skills, Test Scores, Sat Scores

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

- John Katzman

topic: School, Doe, Remember, Sat Scores

They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they have been fighting for three or four years to get the perfect SAT scores and get into A.P. classes.

- Debora Spar

topic: School, Kids, Fighting, Sat Scores

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

- Chace Crawford

source: "Nerdy meathead Jon Gabrus on straddling the bro/geek divide". Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. February 3, 2016.

topic: School, College, Class, Good College, Sat Scores

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

- Neil Simon

topic: School, People, Degrees, Sat Scores, Honorary

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

topic: Smart, School, Simple, Inner City Schools, Prestigious

Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.

- Barack Obama

source: "Around The World" with Michael Holmes and Suzanne Malveaux, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

topic: Opportunity, Men, Gpa, Ivy League, Sat Scores

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

- Eric Liu

topic: Mean, Reality, May, Sat Scores

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

- Paul Houston

topic: Kids, Justice, Needs, Sat Scores

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

- Jim Goad

source: Source: love-and-pop.com

topic: Smart, Aptitude Test, Presidential, Sat Scores, Scholastics

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.2, Kensington Books

topic: Girl, Thinking, Yale, Georgina Kincaid, Sat Scores

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Hate, Believe, People, Sat Scores

If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Player, College, Race, Tubas, Sat Scores

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

topic: Smart, Differences, People, Sat Scores

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

- Bill Gates

topic: Sat Scores