College is the time when we begin to develop our adult sensibilities and personalities. We are often quite different people when we complete the rigors of a college degree. This makes me question the validity of using such results as an indicator of more than the quality of your high school education. Once again it seems that we are looking for the easy way out and hoping to find it in some scientific metric with questionable usefulness. Your permanent record The impact of using SAT scores could be wide ranging if more and more companies begin relying on them.
Current information is always the most useful.
It seems ludicrous that employers would make important decisions based on data that is at least 4 years old, if not older. While I am sure that employers don't rely solely on SAT scores, their use at all makes me suspicious of the entire hiring process. Sometimes we need to take policies to their most ludicrous end to see how flawed they are. I believe the use of SAT scores is just another extension of the current certification trend in high tech careers. Companies are looking for some foolproof metric that will tell them when a candidate fits into their organization and has the seeming guarantee of being the perfect employee.