This has been a topic debated everywhere.

You've got kids who score in the 1500+ and have high IQ that correlates very strongly. But I've also seen students score "mediocre" or perhaps "poorly" relative to their high IQs. Many times these same students with the high IQs but pedestrian SATs seem to have processing speed deficits. Many of them appear to struggle with the snap-judgment of timed tests, and over analyze questions that are meant to be straight forward.

It's a shame the SATS have such weight in college admissions. I've seen very bright students flounder due to lower scores. They aspired to attend selective universities where they could fit in with other highly capable peers but instead internalized the inability to score highly on the standardized tests, rationalized their high IQ scores as 'flukes' and suffered great problems with self-esteem.

One size doesn't fit all of course. Such is the curse and joy of life.