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As someone who has spent more than a few hours both visiting colleges as a potential customer and, as a reporter, covering the economics of higher education (), you sometimes get the sense from admissions officers and even some parents that hanging too much on  SAT scores is not only a mistake, but politically incorrect.  
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JEFFERSON CITY 鈥?If it's election season, it's ratings time.Special-interest groups assign ratings to Missouri legislators, based on whether the legislator sided with the group in key votes on priority bills. The rankings are used to steer political contributions to candidates and sway voters.The latest rankings come from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Based on the 2014 legislative session, the group gave 70 legislators pro-business scores of 90 percent of higher, with 18 of those legislators garnering perfect 100 percent scores.The scores were based on a "comprehensive list of important economic issues," the chamber said in a statement. Examples include votes to:鈥⒙燨verride the governor's veto of a bill that gradually reduces the state personal income tax to 5.5 <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-cabas-bags-38>Celine Cabas Bags</a> percent from 6 percent and phases in a 25 percent deduction for business income beginning in 2017.鈥⒙燘ar employers from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation and other services.鈥⒙燫enew the Distressed Area Land Assemblage Tax Credit used by St. Louis developer <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-celine-wallets-39>Celine Wallets</a> Paul McKee, lower caps on historic preservation and low-income housing credits and establish several new incentive programs.鈥⒙燗llow casinos to extend lines of credit to patrons, provided that the gambler borrows at least $10,000.Some of the measures, such as the one dealing with unions, were voted on in only one chamber of the Legislature, so the other chamber's members weren't rated on those issues.The rated votes did not cover one of the chamber's biggest priorities: expanding Medicaid to low-income adults making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. That proposal never got off the ground in the Republican-controlled Legislature. A chamber spokeswoman said it was not rated because the Legislature took no relevant votes on it.The Senate defeated one Medicaid expansion amendment, but that proposal lacked Medicaid reforms so did not carry chamber support. The only House votes on expansion were budget votes and the chamber does not rate budget votes.In the St. Louis <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-clasp-bags-40>Celine Clasp Bags</a> area, only one legislator鈥擲enate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles鈥攙oted with the chamber on every single vote rated and thus, earned a perfect score.The chamber said the ratings could change after the September veto session. You can see the ratings and methodology . (Virginia Young)HE SAID IT:聽鈥淚t鈥檚 like breaking the glass ceiling." 鈥擝ill McKenna, proponent of the proposed Missouri sales tax hike for transportation, characterizing the fact that the state's Department of Transportation's plans for the money if it passes include non-road projects like bike paths.HOT LINKS:鈥⒙犫€⒙犫€擳his report was compiled by Post-Dispatch political reporter聽Kevin McDermott.
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After all, it has been proven that kids from wealthy families, who can afford SAT prep courses and often go to more competitive high schools, tend to get higher scores. The test is biased towards the affluent and it is often argued that a student鈥檚 high school record and GPA are more predictive of academic success. Indeed, a growing number of colleges are adopting SAT/ACT optional policies.  
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Despite all of this negative noise, standardized tests like the SAT still matter a lot to highly selective colleges. Two biggest reasons:&nbsp; 1) It is an <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com/louis-vuitton-artsy-gm-40>Louis Vuitton Artsy GM</a> effective way to screen out students when the number of&nbsp; applications is overwhelming (Stanford reported 42,000 applications for roughly 1,700 freshman in the Class of 2018), and 2) Colleges admissions offices care a great deal about popular rankings like U.S. News World Report鈥檚 and tests like the SAT have a fairly significant weighting in the formula. For executives running admissions offices at top colleges, moving up on U.S. News list is almost always recognized by the Board of Trustees, and this can mean good things during&nbsp; bonus time. (Forbes own college ranking ()&nbsp;doesn鈥檛 consider SATs)
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The SAT and the ACT standardized tests cut through the smoke and mirrors created by different high school grading schemes and the fluffing of extracurricular activities. While officials at the Collegeboard would never call the SAT an Intelligence Quotient Test,it, in fact,was first developed as an Army IQ test in the 1920s, and it continues to correlate strongly with IQ tests. The most Collegeboard will currently say about the exam is that it is designed to assess academic readiness for college, measuring verbal reasoning and mathematical reasoning.  
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After witnessing first hand how much time and money parents spend, and the angst they endure, on things like high school sports or extracurricular activities or summer teen programs, I think test-only admissions policies might actually put an end to some of the madness going on at high schools these days. For some communities, like suburban New York City and Philadelphia, the $250,000 spent for four years at a private institution, is merely the culmination a flood of spending leading up to college <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com/damier-azur-toile-39>Damier Azur Toile</a> acceptance.  
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In other words, you may think that the $4,000 you spent for junior鈥檚 community service vacation in Costa Rica will make all the difference to his top choice college, but in reality a summer at home studying for the SAT could have a better ROI.&nbsp; Like it or not SAT scores remain the critical yardstick for top colleges and as it turns out a number of leading businesses like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey Co and hedge fund DE Shaw, actually want to know the SAT scores of the young candidates applying for jobs.&nbsp; As a parent, you should also seek out&nbsp; high SAT score schools for your kid because these 鈥渂righter鈥?kids from affluent families often wind up creating better networking opportunities down the road.  
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So which colleges have students with the highest SAT scores? Below you will find an unfiltered ranking of the top 100 average SAT Critical Reading and Math scores reported to the government for the academic year starting in Fall 2013. ACT Composite scores are also listed for each school. The scores displayed are an average of 25th percentile and 75th percentile &nbsp;scores so those&nbsp; students in the college hunt would be wise to target schools where their own SAT scores are at least as high as those reported.  
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@@@ JEFFERSON CITY 鈥?If it's election season, it's ratings time.Special-interest groups assign ratings to Missouri legislators, based on whether the legislator sided with the group in key votes on priority bills. The rankings are used to steer political contributions to candidates and sway voters.The latest rankings come from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Based on the 2014 legislative session, the group gave 70 legislators pro-business scores of 90 percent of higher, with 18 of those legislators garnering perfect 100 percent scores.The scores were based on a "comprehensive list of important economic issues," the chamber said in a statement. Examples include votes to:鈥⒙燨verride the governor's veto of a bill that gradually reduces the state personal income tax to 5.5 <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-cabas-bags-38>Celine Cabas Bags</a> percent from 6 percent and phases in a 25 percent deduction for business income beginning in 2017.鈥⒙燘ar employers from requiring nonunion members to pay fees for representation and other services.鈥⒙燫enew the Distressed Area Land Assemblage Tax Credit used by St. Louis developer <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-celine-wallets-39>Celine Wallets</a> Paul McKee, lower caps on historic preservation and low-income housing credits and establish several new incentive programs.鈥⒙燗llow casinos to extend lines of credit to patrons, provided that the gambler borrows at least $10,000.Some of the measures, such as the one dealing with unions, were voted on in only one chamber of the Legislature, so the other chamber's members weren't rated on those issues.The rated votes did not cover one of the chamber's biggest priorities: expanding Medicaid to low-income adults making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. That proposal never got off the ground in the Republican-controlled Legislature. A chamber spokeswoman said it was not rated because the Legislature took no relevant votes on it.The Senate defeated one Medicaid expansion amendment, but that proposal lacked Medicaid reforms so did not carry chamber support. The only House votes on expansion were budget votes and the chamber does not rate budget votes.In the St. Louis <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com/celine-clasp-bags-40>Celine Clasp Bags</a> area, only one legislator鈥擲enate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles鈥攙oted with the chamber on every single vote rated and thus, earned a perfect score.The chamber said the ratings could change after the September veto session. You can see the ratings and methodology . (Virginia Young)HE SAID IT:聽鈥淚t鈥檚 like breaking the glass ceiling." 鈥擝ill McKenna, proponent of the proposed Missouri sales tax hike for transportation, characterizing the fact that the state's Department of Transportation's plans for the money if it passes include non-road projects like bike paths.HOT LINKS:鈥⒙犫€⒙犫€擳his report was compiled by Post-Dispatch political reporter聽Kevin McDermott.

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