Sticky Sticky Dozier

Memphis hoopster and heralded recruit Robert Dozier notched a 670 on the math portion of his SAT in 2003, which put him in the nation’s 89th percentile. Nothing to see here, right? Not so fast. Ironically, subtraction—in this case, the difference between his first SAT score and second SAT score may actually be his biggest problem.

From ESPN.com’s Mark Schlabach:

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[Dozier] took the SAT for the first time on Dec. 6, 2003, about five months after he verbally committed to play for the Tigers. Dozier scored a 1,260 of a possible 1,600…

Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit company that develops, administers, and scores the SAT, opened an investigation of Dozier’s test scores in June 2004. In a June 14, 2004 letter to Dozier, ETS officials told him that “we believe there appears to be substantial evidence that your scores [on the SAT] are invalid. Our preliminary concerns are based on a comparison of the handwriting on your answer sheet with the handwriting on other documents such as your registration form and external documents.”

ETS officials offered Dozier a chance to validate his earlier scores by taking the SAT again. Dozier took the test in July 2004 and scored 720—540 points lower than his earlier score.

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Moral of the story…if you’re Chuckie Sullivan, don’t have Will Hunting take your SAT for you.

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