How Much Academic Ability Is Required to Do Well in College?

How much academic ability is required to do well in college? We can begin by looking at what it takes to grad from college. In 19 72, the standard text book for the wesler adult intelligence scale concluded that a good working rule of thumb for the mean ice of college graduates was about 115. But we have two excellent sources for checking that estimate more precisely: members of the 19 79 and 19 97 cohorts of the national longitudinal survey of youth.