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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3563238, member: 1673"] I was once tasked to research something related to this discussion. This was more than thirty years ago, but the findings are no doubt relevant and provide a resolution to the conflict between #oldude, #bennyskid and perhaps #plebe. (Did I do that hashtag thing right?) A variety of studies (up until the eighties at least) attempted to tease out the most important predictor of educational success. The one variable that proved to be the best predictor of educational success was parental support for education. This was more important than socioeconomic background, high school attended or anything else. I add to this an observation from many years spent in the university system: both social networking and perseverance (or motivation if you prefer) are more important to educational success than intelligence, or at least the critical thinking part. This provides support to oldude's argument. Grades are a good predictor because the motivation for good grades are a reflection of the parental support. It also provides an explanation for bennyskid's qualifier. Parents lower down on the socioeconomic scale do not have the same means to train their kids in the SATs as occurs with the upper socioeconomic scale. They also are less likely to go to prestigious schools despite their high school success. Conversely, prestigious schools have more students from upper socioeconomic backgrounds. Part of the expression of parental support in this case would indeed be providing, encouraging, nagging their kids with SAT training. The more parental support the more likely those kids will be trained in the SATs. The ultimate cause still remains parental support for educational success. [/QUOTE]

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