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Direct linkJohn N. Friedman; Bruce Sacerdote; Douglas O. Staiger; Michele Tine – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
We analyze admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship between standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores, high school GPA, and first-year college grades. Standardized test scores predict academic outcomes with a normalized slope four times greater than that from high school GPA, all conditional…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Grade Point Average, College Entrance Examinations
