Buyside SAT / ACT Perception

I've heard that buyside funds and their HH counterparts consider high school standardized test scores as a way to benchmark candidates. As an individual with a mediocre (B+ equivalent) score but a high-end GPA, will my SAT / ACT drag me down in PE / GE recruitment? 

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