only 1.3 million take the SAT? good business model if i must say, that's what.. like 200 million a year? jesus



for what, it doesn't measure anything other than the ability to take the sat. it's one of the few ways to categorize people based on an 'objective' standard. same with the GRE. its just another hoop to go through for a school admission process, a way for them to rank you based on one measure. in our case, it works out well.



only 7 people would get above a 1580.. 1410 ain't bad, 1360 isn't either, considering i didn't really study for the verbal part. cant' study words, it's pointless. i highly disagree with that being "objective" unless everybody gets the same words, and even then, i know a different set of words than another candidate. not worried about it. it's all pointless.



how else could you objectively rank candidates? gpa is subjective in a way with different schools and professors handing out different grades, standardized tests supplyilng different questions to each test-taker. references which can be subjective. application essay which gives a brief introduction to the person. the interview is about the only way to objectively measure a person's character based on the same question to every interviewee. but that says nothign about skill set, knowledge, critical thinking. Place of employment for anesthesia school says something, but it still doesn't speak about the skills andk nowledge. get certifications? that just says you can take a test for the most part. sure, you wouldnt' be able to pass it, but anybody in the ICU longer than a year should be able to so it just shows that a person takes the time (and wastes the money) to take it.



no idea how to weed people out other than how they do it now i guess.