It is shown that not only will the usual predictors of college grades such as the Scholastic Aptitude Tests-Verbal and Mathematical (SAT-V & SAT-M) and rank in high school graduating class (HSR) differentiate significantly between college dropouts and non-dropouts but that scores obtained by converting SAT-V, SAT-M, and HSR to normalized T scores and computing the differences between HSR and the other two variables will also distinguish dropouts from non-dropouts. It is felt that such difference scores may be useful indicators of academic achievement motivation.
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