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>In the early 1960's I worked in a university admissions office.  We did studies
>on the SAT back then, in an effort to create a formula incorporating that and
>class rank or GPA.  From what I can recall, I'd agree with Beckman's view of
>the predictive value of the tests.  There was a general trend, but a very, very
>wide variance.  The correlation wasn't anything to write home about.  It was
>higher for the verbal SAT score, but then this was a liberal arts school.
>
>Does anyone have better information from more recent studies (hopefully not
>funded by the SAT people...)?  One would hope universities have continued to
>do such research up to the present time.
 
MIT did some recent studies in which they looked at SATs versus 
performance once admitted (via grade point average, I believe).
They found that SAT scores underpredicted the performance of female
students relative to male students.  That is, for a group of students 
having close SAT scores, the females in the group attained higher 
grades than the male students.   I believe they changed their admissions
policies according, to give less weight to SAT scores.
 
ann

(My apologies for the topic drift.)