I am curious about the rationale for the recent change in the Davidson Academy SAT requirements. The scores they now require seem much more reasonable to me (ie. they seem to more clearly correspond with IQ scores in the 99.9 percentile). In fact, the new requirements seem more appropriate for even the pre-2005 SA). Still I am curious about just what went into this decision.
I am especially interested because I notice that there does not seem to be a change in score-percentile correspondence in the scores of Seniors between the pre-2005 SAT and the 'New' one. I also notice that CTY has not raised its eligibility requirements for its various programs since 2005. In particular I am curious about whether Davidson has reason to believe that the new score requirements would correspond to the 99.9 percentile on even the pre-2005 SAT (though of course not the pre-1995). Or is this just a late response to a deep dumbing down of the test...
http://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=144&NavID=1_33
