History Tells Us That This Is the Best Investing Strategy
Tom Yeung here with today’s Smart Money.
In the 2000s, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley wondered, “What is the best predictor of a college student’s grades?”
They studied dozens of factors, including family education, income, SAT scores, and more.
All these studies consistently found one thing… one fact that every professor and parent already knows:
The best predictor of college grades is a student’s high school grades.
In other words, promising high school students tend to become good college students. High school grades are twice as predictive as SAT scores and almost 10 times more useful than parent education levels at forecasting performance. Senior-year grades in advanced…
