#8 South Dakota
Average SAT score: 1737
Average ACT score: 21.8
At the top of the list are Minnesota and Iowa. Montana, Wyoming, and the other Mountain West states score very well, too; yet, New Mexico and Nevada are in the lower half of states. DC is 51st.
Intersecting with these results comes a piece in the New York Times Education section describing the spiking use of pharmaceuticals among students:
The number of prescriptions for A.D.H.D. medications dispensed for young people ages 10 to 19 has risen 26 percent since 2007, to almost 21 million yearly, according to IMS Health, a health care information company — a number that experts estimate corresponds to more than two million individuals. [P]rescription stimulants became a point of contention when a girl with otherwise middling grades suddenly improved her SAT score.
Data on which states dispense the most ADHD 'scripts are ancient: anyone find anything recent?
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