I got perfect scores in math standardized tests. Growing up as a spanish speaker put me at a disadvantage for the english sections and lowered my SATs. At the end of the day I get what the SAT and the intelligence factors are trying to do but many groups have disadvantages right from the get go.,(reply>), @Michael Platson not really. Many super smart people are not great with languages. You can even be super intelligent and be bad at spelling.,(reply>), I'm just the opposite. I missed graduating on time by One credit, that I missed by ONE test. The school was a private school, so they wanted my parents to pay over $500 for an entire Summer, just to take the one test (but they were willing to stay behind for 3 days--much longer than I needed--for the ONLY other student in my graduating class, because her parents were Church members). ANYWAY, I told Mom to screw them, and we went to the local college. It just so happened that I was able to take the GED test the same day (COLD, without prior study; in the past, I DID get the 6th highest SAT score in the County, even though my Math scores were abysmal). A few days later, I got a call from the college, to come get my GED score in person. TURNS OUT, that even though I had a 1.25 GPA in Highschool, my over-all GED score neared the 98th percentile (for the Nation); yet I only had a 5th grade equivalency in Math (9th grade is the minimum for a GED). The college told me that they would grant me my GED, IF I attended their school on a Full-Ride scholarship. All they needed me to do was get up to speed through supplemental Math's courses (also free). OF COURSE, I agreed. They granted me my GED, and I ran away from home with my boyfriend (TRULY STUPID, but I was DONE with compulsory education). When I finally DID decide to back to school, about a decade later, I managed to hold a 3.88 GPA with a curriculum HEAVY in the Sciences.<br><br>I have SEVERE ADD (inattentive), and moderate dyslexia (which actually gives one a HOLOGRAPHIC perception, making it difficult to cope in a LINEAR thinking society). But I've been blessed with an insatiable curiosity. Even the slightest passing ponderings become a BURNING NEED TO KNOW. Everything that I absorb under those circumstances stays with me for DECADES. Every new thing I learn is immediately cross-referenced with everything that I already know, which serves to strengthen and reinforce the density of my neural net. The more I know, the faster I learn, and the more likely it sticks.... MEANWHILE, I can't remember if I brushed my teeth today, or how long it's been since I last paid my bills, (or whether to check if I'm wearing pants, before I drive to the store). I CAN remember what days are people's birthdays... I just never know what TODAY is.... It makes it really hard to hold a job.,(reply>), I broke my writing arm in 8th grade and couldnt shade in the circles quickly so didnt finish the test sections and ended up in remedial reading class the next yr when reading was always my strongest subject by far, luckily they figured it out pretty quick and moved me but it was embarrassing!,(reply>), Interestingly enough, I always felt growing up as a Spanish speaker was an advantage. A lot of the vocabulary in "academic English", especially in science, is derived or borrowed from  Latin. Although Spanish isn't identical to Latin by any means, the meaning of many words just felt familiar and intuitive to me. Funnily enough, the only concrete example that I can think right now of wasn't actually in science. We read a book called "Heart of Darkness" in high school English class that described someone as a "somnambulist" in one page. I'd never heard the word in English, but because word is almost identical in Spanish I correctly ascertained it meant "sleepwalker" whereas the rest of thr class did not understand. That doesn't mean was "smarter than the class" only that the knowledge of Spanish I had served to help me rather than hinder me.,(reply>), @Michael Platson yeah and I understand that, and colleges that look at it on a section basis based on skill set makes sense, and not holistically. If there was Spanish reading comprehension I’d rock it, and anxiety can artificially lower a perceived intelligence score based on factors that are more culturally or language barrier based. I get the point of SAT from a math perspective, because math is universal, but to measure say a Spanish speaking historians or philosophers intelligence on an English based timed exam, the perceived intelligence of someone like that is already biased because it was designed for English native speakers and I think that level of case by case intelligence is hard to capture of course. I’m not against it but as long as institutions differentiate these case by case it’s fine.