Is the SAT a good predictor of academic success in college?
This has been a much-debated question for many years. Interestingly, in an op-ed article that appeared in November 2008 in the New York Times, SUNY Stony Brook political science professor Peter D. Salins points out that the SUNY system (the State University of New York) served as a controlled experiment of sorts when 9 of 16 SUNYs decided to raise their SAT admission requirements after 1997. Salins concludes that based on the empirical evidence, students with better SAT scores are more likely to succeed in college and ultimately graduate.
