Ability Quote by Jonathan Grayer

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are…

— Jonathan Grayer

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores…

— Virginia Postrel

The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born…

— Paul Houston

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an…

— Eric Liu

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that…

— Scott Foley

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids…

— Millard Drexler

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions…

— Asha Rangappa

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to…

— Derek Bok

There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United States do…

— Henry Rosovsky

Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public…

— Angela Rayner

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to…

— Robert Sternberg