The College Board became uneasy with that description and changed it to "Scholastic Assessment Test".
The graduating seniors scored a combined verbal and mathematics average of 826 on their Scholastic Assessment Tests, about 200 points below the state average.
He said he would like to raise the average Scholastic Assessment Tests score for students, which now hovers at about 1,100, "by somewhere between 20 and 200 points".
This finding is based largely on an association between the presence of a specific gene and high Scholastic Assessment Test scores.
It raised the average Scholastic Assessment Test score of entering students from about 1100 five years ago to over 1200, making it one of the more selective schools in the country.
Eugene Garcia (Op-Ed, Dec. 26) says that by the mid-1980's the University of California was placing equal weight on Scholastic Assessment Test scores and grade point averages.
At the College Board, which administers scholastic assessment tests for college-bound high school seniors, the mystery donor was always referred to by the name "anonymous," said Dr. Donald Stewart, president of the College Board.
Re "Tell Me Again: Why Are S.A.T. Scores So Important?" (Op-Ed, May 26): A wealth of evidence indicates that students with Scholastic Assessment Test scores far below the norm are not likely to be academically successful.
In 1986, the N.C.A.A. began to raise entry standards for freshman athletes (they needed a 2.0 average in their high school core curriculum and a combined math and verbal score of at least 700 in Scholastic Assessment Tests -- which is about 200 points below the national average, yet certainly not off the charts.
I had that too!" If they were re-enacting the relief celebrated by millions of high school students before them upon completion of the nation's most widely used college entrance exam, the three juniors from Hunter College High School, like other 230,000 students across the country who took the Scholastic Assessment Tests yesterday, were leaving a new academic playing field.
In presenting statistics on Scholastic Assessment Test scores of African-American college applicants, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom (letter, June 1) claim that low S.A.T. scores of African-Americans are "correlated perfectly" with their high dropout rates and therefore the end of preferential admissions will close the racial gap in academic preparation for college.
