. >> they are brushing up for the s.a.t., the biggest problem could be adding up the cost for paying for college. >> i think it will be hard meeting deadlines. >> seems like you have to do a lot of work. >> i'm scared that i will not be able to go. >> the big picture is one that is scary for california. >> a revealing new report from the nonprofit education trust west shows how many students are applying for financial aid, or should we say just how few. >> what with you found is disturbing. >> hundreds of millions dollars in grants untapped. >> only half of the students that could be eligible were playing. >> $12,000 of state aid, available for qualified students who simply fill out a form. but the number of kids that fill out the form varies from school to school. only 22% of senior i senior eni. oakland military institute came up on top. with 86% completion rate and then there's the federal aid they could get. >> in federal aid, there's another $5,000. put together, simply by not filling out the application, you could miss out on $17,000 in aid. we are not talking about loans that

>> a case in recent months where universities were experiencing major cheating with the s.a.t.. >> not private. >> it is not true it just happens in the private. >> it is pel grants and it doesn't? government doesn't dominate. (talking all at once.) >> it is not dominating the university system. >> you are going to cheat if you are a cheater in a private or public or catholic school it is human nature. >> i am not defending cheaters. it happens more in public schools. >> we don't know that. >> look, i just think -- the private is -- topic is about the test and you need to measure the kid and see how they are doing. >> julian -- what about it? isn't kimberley right shouldn't more funding go to the vouchher system and let people have school choice? >> i am all for a system that gives school choice. i like charter schools a lot. the problem with the voucher system, it was never enough money to fund a competitive local private school. the government was not going to provide that money. i am all for compitition. but we do need reform in the public school system. for a lot of the students, t

it's like the s.a.t., but for fun, dawg! [laughter] and you know they're not messing around with this survey, because it's hosted by surveymonkey.com, america's most trusted simian data-collection service. [laughter] now, this survey is precisely targeted at youths only, because it clearly states: "please do 'not' take this survey if you are 30 years of age or older." all right then. here i go. [laughter] and let me tell you: some of the questions on this bad boy are totes mad poppin' fresh. [laughter] such as numero thirty-sixo, which addresses young voters' love of diversity. asking, "do you think that the republican party discriminates against people? if so, which people?" [laughter] with options including african americans, white people, latinos, asians, gays and lesbians. or: the republican party does not discriminate against anyone" that's easy the answer is the g.o.p. does not discriminate against anyone. least of all white people, who are the only option the survey refers to as people. [laughter] [cheers and applause

i want my kids to do well on the s.a.t. and a.c.t. i want them to be in the top ten. but what i really want, i want them to be successful after they get out of college. >> reporter: when we met up with kelly rankin's son, jacob, he was learning to make a rocket. >> i love building, i love designing. i might want to be an engineer when i grow up. i don't know yet, i'm just a freshman. >> it started out as a nice, little project. but by the time he was done, he could tell me all the equations that went along with it. >> there's going to be problems that you'd never even think of, and the teacher, he'll, say i don't know. what do you think? >> knowing how to solve a problem or take a project and say, "i don't know all the... the answers to this. but i know how to work with other people to come to a solution." that's a life skill. >> reporter: based on our quick survey, parents seem enthusiastic about danville's plan for reform. but how do teachers feel? >> it's fun. the kids like it. and the teachers like it and you know, being active the kids get to do stuff. >> reporte

teenager who is take the s.a.t. in big venues do worse than smaller venues. >> isn't that crazy. think of it this way. this is another experiment. they sit you down and give you a test and say you are competing against nine other people to see who is going to win. sometimes they say you are competing with 99 other people. when competing with 99, the odds of winning are a crap shoot. now i have a chance. they work harder and apply themselves more. >> i had everyone do this. if your ring finger is bigger than your index finger it means what? >> you are more prone to risk taking, respond to competition and you are comfortable being aggressive. it means you have spatial ability. >> how do you rank there? >> i would hold it up to the camera. this is my ring finger, it's longer than my index finger. this means i'm a risk taker. yeah, it's quite a bit longer. differences are very minute. on average, women have a longer index finger. the question is why. this is crazy. this couldn't be a measure of risk taking an entrepreneurship. they have done studies with 3,000 entrepreneurs. they cou

kind of like the math and the english on the s.a.t. e analysts may know the math, but then the english knocks them out. there are very few people who can consistently ace both. in microsoft's case, you actually had the best of the best among the analysts, you know what, they got it totally and completely wrong. >> the house of pain! >> they brought microsoft public back in the day at goldman. he was the closest research analyst to bill gates and steve ballmer, yet these analysts simultaneously downgraded microsoft back on april 11th, right before the company reported based on what they thought would be weakness across the board because of how bad the pc market is. then there was a third downgrade before the quarter. this was probably the most painful of all. the downgrade begins, quote, after maintaining a buy since september, 2008, we are downgrading microsoft to neutral and trimming our price objective to $33. bank of america actually came close to the numbers. the estimates weren't that far off, but they got the thesis about the dire

fox business was the only business network to bring you the arrest of the s.a.t.friday. today we'll show you just what this means for s.a.t.'s chief steve cohen. big business and immigration. compromise is forming quickly but some say the president need to jump on board. and shakespeare not in love with taxes. new findings show he wasn't a big fan of paying his fair share. join the club, william. it is the top of the hour. stocks every 15 minutes and it is the first trading day of the second quarter. nicole on the floor of the new york stock exchange. the markets have a bit of volatility this morning. >> that's right. economic reports, some better than others and also abroad, not only here at home but also china and the like. we started off the day in the green. right now talk about what we're seeing on the boards. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 all with down arrows. nasdaq down 3/4 of 1%. tech heavy nasdaq pulling back. i.s.m. number and that banner flashed low. it came in less than expected of 54 so that also is a little bit of a disappointment. major market averag

>>gretchen: imagine taking the s.a.t.'s and find out your scores didn't count. ting but it is forcing everyone to retake the test. >> the students have to suffer and take the tests all over again. >>gretchen: the rescheduled s.a.t. is set for next wednesday. i wonder how that works. there's different versions of the s.a.t. that could be complicated. >>brian: more on your top story, louisville beating michigan last night in one of the finest championship games i can remember, gives them their first title since 1986. joining us live from atlanta is caroline ryan. they must still be excited in atlanta? >> absolutely. an incredible week here in atlanta. folks are arriving here, fans are arriving at the airport. louisville arriving tired and happy. michigan fans probably just arriving at the airport tired. it was a late game last night. it was a hard-fought game. the final score 82-76 with louisville coming out on top. louisville really playing for their injured teammate who has become somewhat of a national superstar. kevin ware. then of course we've got coach pitino

>> the saddest parts of the aftermath of these events after the s.a.t. ad events is the glee that other sides get when they find out it's the other side. i think now in the age of twitter where everyone has a voice nationally and can be amplified we see that more than we used top. of course there is going to be political implications and political implications regardless of who the perpetrators are in this issue. >> cenk: let's quickly move on to the other issue at hand. which, of course, seems less important after you see a story like that, but it is important nationally. the g.o.p. did meet up recently out here in california, and plotting the resurgence, apparently. what's their grand plan here for revitalizing the party? >> well, this is their second big meeting since the election in 2013. the last meeting was for philosophy philosophizing what was going to a happen. this was to put the blocks in place to win in 2014 and 2016. they're investing $10 million in a minority outreach program to put full-time staffers all over the country in places that are

liz: by a pick and mako puppy recall the s.a.t. board. >> reporter: i did well on my sats. id you make? and dying to know. >> reporter: had no. i can remember. anyway. i took the gop's to get it. liz: i took the gre as well. so interesting enough, took a lot of shots that policy makers to i found it fascinating that one of the main points in made in the letter was talking about dodd-frank. did not enter. the flat out. and basically corrupt -- corroborating and collaborating with policymakers to take some steps to end. now have a call in to morgan. want to know exactly what those are. the weekly meetings. kind of interesting because jamie dimon feels that banks like his that create a fortress balance sheets, you know, withstood the worst of the financial crisis paid a price because others were bailout. city, bank of america. too big to fail in some way. i'll think he will end up too big to fail. liz: huge. >> reporter: when you have big banks, you can't have too big to fail. by the way, that is for another conversation, about help you deal with mega banks. the other thing is

you are live on the coast and has s.a.t.'s and math. you are fine. but we need jobs. >> the unemployment rate for blue collar workers is 11-12 percent. we have hundreds of thousands of pipe lines in this country that . workers and add to the spare capacity to avoid the opec shenan gans . whether or not it is the president approving it given that he went to san francisco may be delayed again. >> the pipe line will only be creating and i am not misquoting here. 35, with numbers like that, you think the president will go. >> he want to go to the environmentalist. he wants to go back to wind and wood burning in cave. but americans don't . pipeline means less of our resours going to venezuela. >> no, it is not a great point. >> yes, it is. european companies are coming to the natural gas and if we are able to export that we could get moving on another front and energy. >> first of all. i love the new segment we tell people where the jobs are at. that is good. steve, don't overdo it on the administration. they don't want to send us back to the dark ages. i

getting arrested in new york talking about the atlanta school superintendent and the teachers rigging the s.a.tadership class in america has betrayed the people they are supposed to lead. i am not saying obama is corrupt, he is not but he has not seized this job. >> he presides over a regime of corruption. >> he is the most opaque president and presides over corruption everywhere, but it is a corrupt system and he is all for it but when he goes to california, raises a million something dollars or whatever --. >> but he gave back 5 percent of the pay. >> and keeps the white house closed. >> this guy is in the business of being a salesman but saying we should not raise money, this is terrible, but give me your money so nancy pelosi can be speaker. >>gregg: doug the poll average of president obama, his approval rating is now 48 percent, and his disapproval is 46 percent, so he is below 50 percent, almost neck and neck with himself. so, look at the rasmussen pole, right track? a scant 35 percent. the wrong track, 57 percent. doug, you have worked for a president, the guy at top always gets the blam

. >> jonathan isn't taking the s.a.t. >> boit is, like, ten. >> doleful. >> does this make you at all, jim, less confident about the ability of the rally to move to that next stage? >> i don't want -- i love the financials as a tell and j.b. hunt was disappointed and look, i like the market, but i need to see all systems go. i need to see wells fargo surprise the upside and i can't expect it to roar. i also know that commercial and industrial loan, and i told you it would not be a blowout. i like the j.p. morgan dividend and i await wells fargo to tell me why this was a blowout. maybe they can. i know when they come on they tell a good story. maybe you're right. >> international was not so bad for j.p. morgan and maybe city has a better story to tell than people realize. i think corvette so far kind of impressive. >> early. >> early. >> it's early to make a judgement. >> stay in the masters. >> let's give it a while. it would be nice, right? if you being get away from sort of the defensive nature or tone. >> oh, yeah, i know. >> -- of the rally, right? i'm getting tired of telecom and

system, there was case in recent months where the universities experiencing majoring teaching with the a s.a.t. it's not true that it true that it happens in public educations. >> you talk about pell grants? >> no, it doesn't. >> it does not dominate the universities system. >> if you are going to cheat whether you are a private school or catholic school or public school. it's human nature. >> i'm just saying it happens a lot more in public schools versus private schools. >> how do we know that. >> you are talking about the test. problem is the test and you need to measure these kids somehow. we need to see how they are doing. >> eric: let me get julie in here. what about it. isn't kimberly right, shouldn't more of the funding go towards the voucher system and let them have a choice? >> i'm all for a system, i like charter schools a lot. the problem with the voucher system was that it was never going to be enough money to fund a competitive local, private school. the government wasn't going to provide that kind of money. so i'm all for competition. i'm for competition between charter schools,

point" here, a high school student writes this op-ed, the lasting requirements for education like the good s.a.t what's trending next 28 minutes past the hour. >>> so, trending this morning an eyebrow raising op-ed written in "the wall street journal" by a pennsylvania high school student. it has a lot of people talking right now. the student apparently upset about not getting into the college of her choice. susie lee weiss made it very clear whys, perhaps, she did not get selected. for starters, had i known two years ago what i know now, i would have gladly worn a headdress to school, show me any closet, i would have happily come out of it, diversify. colleges tell you to be yourself, that's great, unless yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership positions, three varsity sports, killer s.a.t. scores, and two moms. i should have done what i know was best, go to africa, scoop up a child, take pictures, and write an essay about how spending that day with kinto changed my life. >> not just a new generation of entitled kids, but it's a scathing commentary in the college admission process. >

. >> there was other data showing that the progress in atlanta was real. s.a.t. scores were reeled. nobody said they cheated, the naep scores were raised. >> which is a nationally standardized test. >> it's ironic we have a superintendent who is now, what, $7.5 million bail. we haven't -- >> 45 years, 45 years in prison. >> this is -- and we should not make light of cheating at all, and there should be accountability and a thorough investigation, but there's not been an indictment yet against a banker in this country, and the disproportionate kind of pressure -- >> that's a cop-out, though. i mean, i agree with you. they should indict some bankers, but if you're running a cheating ring, you should pay some consequences. >> absolutely. so the real question then is was she running a cheating ring? >> right. >> and is this investigation that needs to occur here in atlanta going to really shed light on how it happened and why it happened, because atlanta is not alone. >> let me interject this quickly because this is important, right, i don't want to convict her on cable news. we never do

. >> i'll be joining college bound program, which is sponsored by chess in the schools, and they'll help me with s.a.t. tutoring and college and going to good colleges and free applications, so it'll be really good. >> as you can see, for these kids, chess if far more than just a game. it can be a life-changing game plan, and that's a smart move. >> if you wear earbuds or headphones walking to school, you could be walking into trouble. wearing a headset increases your chances of getting hurt. you may not hear the warning sounds of approaching danger, like a car. in fact, accidents with people listening to their mp3 players have tripled in recent years. so, here's some sound advice -- keep the volume low enough to still be aware of what's going on around you. >> what's on your mind? we'll find out in "speak of the week." >> i'm about to test your knowledge of not-so-ancient history. do you know what a cassette tape is?now what a cassette >> cassette tape? hmm. those are the things that old people use from way back in the day, and it's like those little recordings. that's what it is? >> it's -- it's lik

the ivy league. an impressive 4.5 gpa, excellent s.a.t. scores. plus, a stint as a u.s. senate page. easons she says she was rejected, "diversity. i offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker." she writes, "i also probably should have started a fake charity, collecting donations for the underprivileged chimpanzees of the congo." she even blames her parents, writing i noticed long ago that my parents gave up on patienting me. i've never sat down at a piano, never plucked a violin." still, the competition is steep. princeton accepted only 7% of its over 26,000 applicants this year. >> just because ewe an a stint and have great test scores doesn't mean you're eligible for an ivy league school. >> reporter: some call suzy a truth till teller. others say she's entitled. >> to those of you disgusted by this, shocked that i take for granted the wonderful gifts i have been afforded, i say, shhh, the real housewives is on." >> and suzy joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> that's one way to blow off a little steam in an op ed to the "wall street journal". >> thank you

and then the final stage which i actually wrote that i did not make was they would have looked at my gpa or s.a.t-- >> host: from a hundred years -- [laughter] >> guest: yeah, from a hundred years ago which was a little daunting. but i do understand trying to throw the most brilliant people in the room together. i'm not discrediting myself here, but there is algorithm in the way that google does everything. and hiring is part of that practice. >> host: does washington understand silicon valley? >> guest: no, absolutely not. no. and, you know, it's -- i'm not sure it's supposed to, because i think washington, um, is trying to look at it from the perspective of sort of the industrial relic. you know, we still think outside of silicon valley if you say the word entrepreneur, it's not necessarily well embraced,? it can be perceived as unemployed, not knowing what you want to do in life, or you're this small business owner. and nobody in silicon valley thinks of themselves as a small business owner. you know, you think whether you're going to build a company for ten people or 10,000 people, you really

and the best way to make a good first impression, whether in speech or in writing, is to present your ideas clearly with good grammatical syntax. >> and he should know. as an s.a.t makes a career advising kids on how to get ahead. he has a list of common grammar mistakes that often trip us up. here comes one that you hear a lot in conversations. listen closely. did you catch the mistake? the problem is at the end of the sentence. >> in this case, the problem is a preposition, and when you have a prepositional phrase -- prepositions being "by," "with," "for," "to," "over," "under," "around," and "through" -- after a preposition, you want to have "me," not "i." you have to say "between you and me," "by you and me." "the cook baked the cake for you and me," not "for you and i." and so many people, old and young, make this mistake repeatedly, whether on television, on the street, or in their writings. >> here's a trick. remove the reference to the other person and then see how it sounds. "i sent the butler to buy bread for i." >> no, that's not good. >> how about, "i sent the butler to buy bread for me"? >> that's better. >> case closed. for you and me, i'm christin

the look, the feel, they changed the stores and talk about innovation. it's a little bit of an s.a.t. question. shoes are to coach as "house of cards." is to -- >> netflix. i'm really happy i answered that. i feel very good. >> my day is done. >> you should have asked the jeopardy, what is shoes. >> i'm hoping to get back on that show. >> what was the other fellow that beat you? the guy who did, like, $1 million. >> that was his name? what do we make of the departure, reed crackoff, the creative designer and, you know, it's a change in management. >> i thought that was surprising because the $1500 bags that i bought people for the holiday gifts, insane, frankly. i didn't know. i went in and it looked like that handbag is great and then you get to the register and there goes every present i'm going to buy. >> how do you admit this is intimidating, but you ask. how much does this cost? >> i should have done that. >> yes, you should have. >> do you ask? this is a high-end product. >> nothing, the idea that you'll pay $1500 for something to avoid embarrassment. >> it was insane. it was i

>> the facts are college campuses bring together people with come nannalty. average s.a.t. people. princeton a lot of commonalities, florida gulf coast university, sweet 16 not so much at academics. she is, looking at pool of common people with common interests. she relies on social science what women expect out after relationship. women want a guy who they perceive as intellectual equal, et cetera. guys, we would be happy to walk down the beach and say, hello, baby! that is men work. called biology. martha: dr. ruskin, let me go to you now. >> hi, martha. martha: my sister marry ad guy from princeton who is my brother-in-law, who we all love. he couldn't find glirls at princeton smart enough for him. he went to bucknell where girls are smarter. he found her there. they have been happily married for many years. what do you think of her suggestion, she you want someone who is your intellectual equal, if you're at an ivy league school you better get it before you graduate? >> right. young girls have to focus attention and energy to school work and social life and extracurricu

the final stage, which i wrote that i did not make, they would have looked at my g.p.a. and s.a.t. scores. >> from 100 years ago. >> absolutely. i do understand, you know, trying to throw the most brilliant people in the room together. i'm not discrediting myself here algorithm the way that google does everything in the hiring process. >> does washington understand silicon valley? >> no, absolutely not. i'm not sure it is supposed to. i think washington is trying to look at it from a perspective on the industrial relic. we still think of silicon valley -- if you say the word entrepreneur it is not well embraced. it could be considered unemployed or not knowing what you want to do in life or you're a small business owner. nobody in sill coon valley thinks they are a small business. you think if you're going to build a company for 10 people or 10,000 people you have a dampte start-up mentality overall. i think washington is looking from, certainly an economic standpoint. we tend to look through the lens of economic and monetary and fiscal policy. so i think there is a lot to learn for

s.a.t. scores. >> mine were horrible. >> people ask what's the secret?enough decades, i'm dead serious, it catches up to you. hard work overcomes so many other things. >> it also feels good. >> so one of the things is when i graduated college, i was not a very good writer. i was not at all. i spent six years working diligently at my writing and was helped by many people along the way, including my roommate in college, my mentor in oxford, and rick hertzburg when he was at the new republic. who really helped me and kept pounding away. you have good ideas and you're a crappy writer. work at it. but it takes time and you have to be willing to keep it up. >> did i say 15 hours a day? i work five hours a day. >> rapid fire. first of all, why did you write this book? and were your brothers okay with it? >> well, everyone can blame maureen dowd, because she kept saying what did mom put in the cereal? and then i also began just writing stories for my kids. i wanted them to know. >> and what are you working on now? >> well, my massive online open course has just

the thing. his little horns are poking through his halo and these little kids generally score higher on their s.a.to signals for parents to find out if your child is laying to -- lying to you. they angle away from you or rub their hair or hands. >> we're looking for change in behavior. we know how they normally would respond in a normal situation. all of a sudden we're looking for deviations. what we notice is they want to escape towards the door or out of the room so they'll shift their bodies away. excessive nervousness, rub their fingers together, stroke their hair or may put their hands over their mouths. these are clues your little one is lying to you. >>gretchen: what about when they reach a little bit older. my kids are eight and nine. lying can mean something different; right? >> it sure can. when it becomes very habitual and also when you're seeing more changes in their behavior -- depression, sadness, isolation, hiding -- those kind of things are a little bit more suspect to more behavior. there could be some bullying going on at school, could be some self-esteem issues or low confidence.