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Getting Testy: Have the SATs left you and yours
in a questionable situation?
TOWN & COUNTRY | November 2004 | By JOE
QUEENAN
It is widely known that the SATs are not an accurate
measure of intelligence; nor are they an accurate predictor of success,
either in college or in life. Lisa Jacobson, the founder and CEO of Inspirica,
an upscale New York and Boston SAT prep company, says that the tests largely
measure how well a student has prepared for taking them and predict only
how well a student will perform in the first year of college. Be that
as it may, parents approach el momento de SAT verdad with the
same dread that our ancestors once viewed an outbreak of smallpox. No
matter what they are told to the contrary, parents and particularly upper-income
parents regard the SATs as a late-adolescent Rubicon. Either the child
fords the raging current and enters the Promised Land (Harvard, MIT, Stanford,
Duke), or he or she is cast out into the darkness (mysterious rural universities,
many with ampersands in their names). back to
Inspirica in the Media
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