re: The NCAA has removed all SAT and ACT scores as part of athlete's eligibility requirements

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I took my ACT after staying up all night doing blow and tripping on acid

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I did the same but just all night booze binge for me
(I am really old and no access to those drugs back then)

I passed out cold before the end of the test (they had to wake me up)

Still scored a 35 out of 36

#1 No school I applied to accepted the ACT back then (no stress to do well)
#2 Was educated in public school (paddle) and by nuns (switch)
#3 Forced to take lots of Latin
#4 Was a math and science nerd
#5 Being under the booze influence meant I was REALLY relaxed
#6 No TV, computer, cell phone, etc. (meant you read and talked face to face)

I had a perfect score on the math part but lost the point on the non math part. In short, I was well prepared by public school and Catholic school to take the test. The Latin helped me break down words I did not know on the test and probably turned wrong answers into right one. Also taught to think and reason which allowed me to "guess" correctly.

How many schools teach Latin to the entire student body in the USA Today?

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I did the same but just all night booze binge for me
(I am really old and no access to those drugs back then)

I passed out cold before the end of the test (they had to wake me up)

Still scored a 35 out of 36

#1 No school I applied to accepted the ACT back then (no stress to do well)
#2 Was educated in public school (paddle) and by nuns (switch)
#3 Forced to take lots of Latin
#4 Was a math and science nerd
#5 Being under the booze influence meant I was REALLY relaxed
#6 No TV, computer, cell phone, etc. (meant you read and talked face to face)

I had a perfect score on the math part but lost the point on the non math part. In short, I was well prepared by public school and Catholic school to take the test. The Latin helped me break down words I did not know on the test and probably turned wrong answers into right one. Also taught to think and reason which allowed me to "guess" correctly.

How many schools teach Latin to the entire student body in the USA Today?

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I took Latin in high school. I wasn't interested in the other languages at all so I took the one no one speaks. Lol

I was so wired up while testing I couldn't sit still. Concentrating was nearly impossible. I had short spurts of being able to focus momentarily but that was it. I was miserable. The last place on earth I wanted to be was taking that damn test, but if I no showed it would have thrown up red flags regarding where I was and what I was doing, so I toughed it out.

I've always wondered what I would have scored sober and with rest, but I never bothered going back to take it again. For the record, I'm not proud of that part of my life but it's the truth. It is what it is.

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I took Latin in high school. I wasn't interested in the other languages at all so I took the one no one speaks.

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Latin is all about word roots. After years of it I could look at all kinds of words and tell you what they probably meant just from the roots. I think doing all those word roots also helped develop better thinking.

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For the record, I'm not proud of that part of my life but it's the truth. It is what it is.

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We all have similar. Key is you learn and mature and try not do that same stupid stuff when you are say 40 and have kids. I feel I got lucky with just booze, kids in school after say 1980 had so many more options on drugs and it really can ruin your life.

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understand test construction and statistics.

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You made the statement with no link to back it.If you really understood statistics (which you obviously don't) you'd have a source to back up your assertion.

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How many schools teach Latin to the entire student body in the USA Today?

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Probably far less than when I was in HS.I took it because I needed a foreign
language requirement for college prep and heard it was easy.Found out it wasn't easy at all but it helped immensely when I had to take foreign language in college (Spanish) along with the SAT and ended up being far less difficult than HS Latin.

Sad to say it's a dying language but it should be required for any HS college prep diploma.

If the qualification to play was spelling “Student Athlete”, college football and basketball would be over.

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has been dead for ages

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As a spoken language sure but it's roots are used every day in multiple fields.

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not learning the language to speak

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Never said it was and it obviously isn't