A Money Maker or a Good Indicator of Undergraduate Performance for Colleges?

"SAT Scores Stir the Web," by Claudine Zap. February 10, 2011.

Before the addition of a writing section in 2005, the highest score a student can get on the SAT is a 1600. With the new writing section, this heavily affects the scores of students, having them to prepare themselves for even more rigorous sections. There's been a lot of buzz whether or not the SAT is a good indicator of how well an incoming freshman would do in college. In my AP Statistics class, I remember having a conversation about this, and my teacher said that there isn't a strong association between SAT scores and GPA. To be honest, I think that taking the SAT truly shows how smart the student is. GPA simply means that the student studies a lot and turns in all the assignments.