I'm surprised they didn't at least attempt to email them to ask why.

Ignorance is always a possibility here, as it might be their first time hiring.

1600 and your GPA was 4.0. Any other answer proves you aren't trying hard enough to get the job.

I don’t even remember my own GPA, for me college was a lifetime ago!

> Why would you ask for a self-reported, unverifiable test score that could be decades old at this point?

Because many colleges that used to reliably filter for them no longer do (or didn't during a several-year period).

It's true that self-reported scores are not the most accurate, but if I were applying for a job I would report honestly, on the assumption that they could easily request for the scores to be sent by the College Board. The risk/reward of lying does not make sense, at least in my case.

It's always odd to me when filters are applied, that arguably neither influence, nor impact outcomes. From what I can see, SAT scores have effectively changed over time, such that reading comprehension has dropped dramatically, with maths abilities increasing (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/11/for-the-1...).

One (me) might argue that now, more then ever, reading matters. The age of AI, only increases the value of critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. Combine that with a (notable) 5-10% change in SAT scores, and it would appear that this practice is unlikely to unearth what factor is being filtered for.

Mind you, no one has ever not accused our industry of tunnel vision, and confirmation bias.

Will humans ever replace these tests with discussions with a super intelligence that creates a hypergraph projection of our understanding?

Tech companies more and more delusional every time, thinking they are special and that their product is so critical for society, and possibly more complex than operating a particle accelerator. So, you basically have to be an outstanding genius in order to have the "honor" to work for them. Then you go in and it's just a glorified vibecoded spaghetti CRUD. Not surprised.

Is SAT as good a preditcor as EQ, I wonder, in LLM based work. It seems clearer articulation is more important.

Age and socioeconomic discrimination. They want only younger people who took the SAT from yuppy societal bastions. Kind of like how Handshake was full of jobs where the firms wanted only recent graduates.

Clearly they will pay a lot of money but be badly run. They want to avoid wokeism beneficiary kids and old folks. An actual job related aptitude test would be better. Half the nation didn't even use the SAT at that age. They used the ACT.

They want young coastal yuppies who were not wokeism beneficiaries at the DEI universities. Those universities broke signaling so making all their alumni show SAT scores instead of relying on the brand will mitigate the fallout.

ACT takers were from lame red states anyway. They want the young blue state brains without the old blue state baggage.

Huh, I never took the SATs. What then?