SAT scores in a few hours.

[SZLiao214]

When i took it my score got me in the bottom of the top 10 percent. I was no where close to the top ten percent gpa wise though.

 

[blinky8225]

800 on the Mathematics Level 2 for me.

 

[IAteYourMother]

well, I take an SAT II US History, whee.

btw, pclstyle, you seem to have a problem... is it that you don't have any friends?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: kyparrish
Uh, didn't the SAT scale change to like 2400 points from the good old days that you and I remember of 1600 points?

Yes, there is a new writing section, but for now most colleges aren't looking at it for acceptance, so you can still work off of the 1600 scale.

Uhh yes they are because it is equivalent to the old SAT II Writing test. Imagine if you combined the SAT I and SAT I Writing together. Honestly, they looked at SAT IIs more closely and they weighted them more, so go figure.

IT does matter.

 

[The Batt?sai]

Originally posted by: kyparrish

Originally posted by: Lazy8s

Originally posted by: pclstyle
and hey, if me saying that a 1300 is sub-par gets you riled up that badly, than you might possibly have to consider the motives behind your own agenda, yeah?

nobody would argue if I said that scoring a B in 11th grade health was borderline retarded. so up the ante a little (as i would hope we at atot would be able to do, i've always found more than a few members here i thought were both very acute and very sharp), and call the bet?


or you can whine, and clutch futilely for comfort at that enshrined collegeboard envelope framed above the fireplace bearing witness to your treasured 1200.

First off I can confidently say I know you did not score a 1590 on the SAT. People who do don't brag. My uncle scored a 1600 and I never even knew it until I saw his application to med school.

Secondly when I took the SAT in 7th grade and made a 1030 I was in the 86th percentile which means 2 things.
1) The SAT has got to be wrong cause there's no way I was smarter than 86 percent of graduating seniors in 7th grade
2) The number of people you're considering "stupid" make up almost 90% of the population.

When I made my 1280 I scored in the upper 90th percentile. That means (according to you) over 95% of the people in the US are "stupid" and that just isn't true. Maybe they were sick like I was and had to get up and leave before they were done, got their 1280 and decided "Shenz that's good enough why go back?", or maybe they realized how little the test matters.

I scored higher on the Chem test for pharmacy school (took it as a joke) than I did on the CS portion of the GRE and I've only had one college chem class. Gotta love multiple choice, even idiots can get 1600s on the SAT.

I am not personally offended by you saying people with less than a 1300 are stupid because I know it's not true, I just thought I'd point out to you that you were calling almost everyone alive stupid. Also, look at the Harvars and Princeton average freshman scores, they are NOT above a 1500 as you stated, unless you're using a new scale. My state school has a higher entering class average than Harvard, the difference? We let in poor people too.

Uh, didn't the SAT scale change to like 2400 points from the good old days that you and I remember of 1600 points?

no?

 

[lrad50]

My friend got a 2340 and got rejected from Harvard
(4.5 gpa as well)

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
well, I take an SAT II US History, whee.

btw, pclstyle, you seem to have a problem... is it that you don't have any friends?

no, i'm having a blast with this. Where else can you take easy jabs at an increasing number of even more increasingly defensive grudge-bearers?

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: crazySOB297

Originally posted by: pclstyle
and hey, if me saying that a 1300 is sub-par gets you riled up that badly, than you might possibly have to consider the motives behind your own agenda, yeah?

nobody would argue if I said that scoring a B in 11th grade health was borderline retarded. so up the ante a little (as i would hope we at atot would be able to do, i've always found more than a few members here i thought were both very acute and very sharp), and call the bet?


or you can whine, and clutch futilely for comfort at that enshrined collegeboard envelope framed above the fireplace bearing witness to your treasured 1200.

Damn dude, for someone with such a good score you sound fvcking bitter about something.

And hell, a 1200 is still scoring better than 80% of the people that take it.

Don't go off and bring others' scores down because your in the top 1% of those who take it. BTW, what high school year did you take it and score 1590?

HS graduating class '02

actually, i took it twice.

the second time i got a 1600.

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
Who the hell will give a crap about how you did on your SAT?s once you are in college or out of college? You are a fool if you base peoples intelligence on a stupid SAT score. I'm glad your mommy made you study SAT practice books, and probably had an SAT tutor hired for you to get your 1600, but no one gives a crap that you got a 1600. I woke up the Saturday I had to take the SAT?s, drove there half awake, and put down what ever answer I thought of first. Oh sucks I got a stupid 1200, and I didn?t give half a crap, and didn?t look at a single practice question or spent even a minute studying for it. So what if my younger sister got a 1580, she practiced for it, but if you think she is a genius and I?m an idiot, you are surely mistaken. The only thing SAT test you is how much you practiced their bullshit questions. I?m a CS and math major (my sister is a math/accounting major), and in every class I have received the top scores on all the tests. 3.95 GPA (whoops I got two A-) this last year, taking software engineering, assembly, digital design, operating system concepts, data mining, discrete math, linear algebra, graph theory, etc. I'm also graduating early. I really don?t know where some people get the idea that SAT?s test your level of intelligence. I guess it makes them feel smart when they get an artificial high score.

Lol, cute. 1200?


Well, you can delude yourself into believing that no one scores high that doesn't invest countless hours in review books and private tutors, but you'd just be stupid.

The whole goddamn point I'm trying to make is that if you're anywhere near as smart as you claim to be, you'd be able to do far better than 1200, without any effort. Can you grasp that concept? I don't give a sh!t about those who've memorized the websters complete dictionary in any number of languages, or those who have memorized a zillion passages from a zillion articles to give them an edge with reading comprehension. I'm saying that no matter what the fvcking excuse is, you shouldn't get BELOW A 1300.

FVCK my own score, take it completely out of the picture of you like. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with how poorly you did. And for that you can spout any number of useless statistics about how fabulous your GPA is now (what uni by the way, it's easy to score @ SCL rank if you're in some garbage 2-year 4th tier CC (no offense to those , this thread ain't about you)).


So, to answer to all that rage and frustration about some obviously long-repressed bitterness stemming from this notorious examination -- It's about you, not me. It's about your 1200, not my 1600. It's about the fact that you need to defend your score everytime you mention it.

Get it?


Nope, probably not. Feel free to present another half-assed entirely irrelevant riposte though, if you like.

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: pclstyle

Originally posted by: TGS

Originally posted by: pclstyle
weak

not worth a decent response, but thanks for the effort :thumbsup:


- ooh wait, maybe it is:

<cue in the overdone jabs about how my life now is so pitiful that i need to grasp at figments from my past that help to remind- no delude me into thinking- that i was once intelligent. Because now i can't get a girl to save my life and i live in a trailer and smoke my self senseless in a pathetic attempt to ward off the pain of my reality. /wrists>

It would appear you are overly protective of how your SAT scores reflect on your level of intelligence. So much to the point where you would make wanton attacks on others. All of which would led me to believe that you need to fulfill some self justicification of how smart you feel, at the expense of others. I would argue that you lack self-confidence more than anything else. Your SAT scores seem to be a crutch to lean on, more than anything else...

why would you quote me, after falling so idiotically into a blatant, pre-empting trap?

did it go that far over your head?


P.S. Your use of ellipsis has proved so mysterious yet disconcertingly discerning that I've begun to question myself based on the incriminations you've provided me. It's so deep, so dark, oh god you read me like a book.


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lol

The simple reasoning behind your responses exposes your inferiority complex. You clench your SAT scores as justificiation to berating others. I find it sad that someone would stoop to a point where mere test scores are the summation of a persons intellect. Should people be proud of their accomplishments on testing? Of course. Should one go on some enraged tangent about others who scored lower than themselves? I would poignant disagree with that type of behavior, and have expressed so much here.

Using your logic, I could bring up wage, housing, and overall family lifestyles and consider many to be my "inferior". Though I would honestly have to question why I would focus so much attention to that aspect of my life. Insofar to make objectionable attacks on ones character, would make my position appear baseless.

oh god, no more thesaurus.com, please.

This isn't freaking 11th grade debate team, you aren't wow-ing me with what you obviously assume to be a well-developed sense of grammar and command of the english language. i wrote the way you do now, when I was in 7th grade. Got me A's across the board, but at least I could admit to myself I was a farce. Read through your sh!t, please. It's barely coherent.

And what the fvck does this mean "would poignant disagree"?


Another thing that seems to breeze completely by you is that this is terrifically entertaining for myself. Enraging? I've yet to become defensive or lash out in some petty way, the way you and your little compatriots seem to be doing with every reply.


But I'll bother to address your "summation of intellect". I specified that <1300 could be regarded as relatively stupid. Sure, it might be far above the average -- but we all know where the average lies. There's any number of explanations for why someone might score below that, but the fact remains the same: you scored (on average) below 650/800 on two portions of a test (if that joke of an exam could be called that) that grant you 200/800 of those points for writing your name. And if that's not stupid, then hell, I don't know what is.

I said nothing about the existence of some proportion between scores >1300 and intellect. Nothing about how people with a 1600 are exactly some percentage "smarter" than those with a 1300. I set a cutoff point, sure, maybe if it were to be logistically plotted we'd find it to be higher or lower -- but that's entirely irrelevant. I hope you can see why. Please god say you can see why.

 

[touchmyichi]

I only got a 1210 and I'm at a top 50 college right now. *Shrug* just do your best and blow some steam once it's done.

 

[pclstyle]

regardless of how much antipathy is flowing between me and a good portion of the atot populace - i'd still enthusiastically commend any and all who do well on this exam, regardless of whether you'd consider it a crowning acheivement or not.

because like it or not, it's a test, and it, however poorly, measures something. And though it's value in the "real world" might be almost nil, it still a required supplement for admission into any major university, and if taken lightly, can very well harm you - almost as bad as graduating with a 2.0 ( <- me, feeding the flames )

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: pclstyle
HS graduating class '02

actually, i took it twice.

the second time i got a 1600.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but isn't it a very small number of students that actually got a perfect score? Very small as in probably less than a dozen. So small that newspapers and such often announced a list of kids who got it. Unless I'm mistaken on that I call shens.

 

[tfinch2]

I got a 1230 my first time and I was accepted to Harvard based off of that. Too bad I couldn't afford to go.

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: pclstyle
HS graduating class '02

actually, i took it twice.

the second time i got a 1600.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but isn't it a very small number of students that actually got a perfect score? Very small as in probably less than a dozen. So small that newspapers and such often announced a list of kids who got it. Unless I'm mistaken on that I call shens.

Hmm, short of digging up and scanning an ancient record, I probably can't do anything about your call.


But, I'm sure there's a statistic somewhere out there, feel free to do the research if you like :: in my graduating class at phillips academy andover, there were close to 30 kids that scored a 1600. And I don't recall ever getting a mention anywhere. Not even when I scored 1330 in 7th grade to qualify for admittance into the Center for Talented Youth (CTY, do I have any alums out there? )

 

[wtfbbq]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: pclstyle
HS graduating class '02

actually, i took it twice.

the second time i got a 1600.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but isn't it a very small number of students that actually got a perfect score? Very small as in probably less than a dozen. So small that newspapers and such often announced a list of kids who got it. Unless I'm mistaken on that I call shens.

no.. it's a few hundred every year that get a perfect score. pclstyle is being a total ass about it, but he's right about some points. most intelligent people will be able to reason through the test without practice to have a fairly good score (1250-1300sh+). that being said, the SAT is also clearly flawed (though still a standard that we use to judge people, and no one else is going to make a new test, so we must continue to use it) and those who can afford to practice or take it many times will clearly have an advantage.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: pclstyle
HS graduating class '02

actually, i took it twice.

the second time i got a 1600.

Feel free to prove me wrong, but isn't it a very small number of students that actually got a perfect score? Very small as in probably less than a dozen. So small that newspapers and such often announced a list of kids who got it. Unless I'm mistaken on that I call shens.

Every year at my high school (for 4 years) we always had roughly 3-4 students score a perfect 1600. It's an accomplishment, but it's doesn't make you the uber-top 100 in the country.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Every year at my high school (for 4 years) we always had roughly 3-4 students score a perfect 1600. It's an accomplishment, but it's doesn't make you the uber-top 100 in the country.

Hmmm... I must've went to a subpar school then. Here one kid got 1600 and he had his picture and a short autobiography of him in the papers.

 

[astrocase]

pclstyle...

I took the GRE and the GMAT and I did very well. Despite that I walked out thinking they were the dumbest and most useless tests out there, much like the SAT. Let's face it, any test that scores you on your ability to understand words that no human being uses and you will never use again in your life is just a waste of all our time. It just shows that you memorized the dictionary with 1000 flashcards. Test taking ability doesn't prove much and you're a perfect case in point. You are rude, disrespectful, and have a terrible attitude problem. Regardless of how well you did on your beloved SAT, and how much you enjoy calling everyone else stupid, you'll probably amount to nothing when your employer sees how poorly you interact with other people and you say something stupid at the company picnic that will stop you from ever advancing.

You?ve probably already figured that out though haven?t you? Fresh out of college and struggling to keep a job? Struggling to get those letters of recommendation for grad school?

Grow up. If you're as smart as you say you are then don't waste it.

 

[maziwanka]

i also agree with astro and the other posters who have voiced the same thing.

However, there is no reason to doubt that pclstyle got a perfect (esp. since he gains almost nothing on ATOT by lying about it). have faith in ppl man..

a perfect on the SAT is wonderful and definitely something to be very proud of. in the end, we all know that there is a very low correlation between success and your SAT score (that doesn't say that you shouldn't try to kick ass on it - there IS a difference between going to a good school and going to that same school for free because you kicked ass on some meaningless test)

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: astrocase
pclstyle...

I took the GRE and the GMAT and I did very well. Despite that I walked out thinking they were the dumbest and most useless tests out there, much like the SAT. Let's face it, any test that scores you on your ability to understand words that no human being uses and you will never use again in your life is just a waste of all our time. It just shows that you memorized the dictionary with 1000 flashcards. Test taking ability doesn't prove much and you're a perfect case in point. You are rude, disrespectful, and have a terrible attitude problem. Regardless of how well you did on your beloved SAT, and how much you enjoy calling everyone else stupid, you'll probably amount to nothing when your employer sees how poorly you interact with other people and you say something stupid at the company picnic that will stop you from ever advancing.

You?ve probably already figured that out though haven?t you? Fresh out of college and struggling to keep a job? Struggling to get those letters of recommendation for grad school?

Grow up. If you're as smart as you say you are then don't waste it.

Personal attacks aside, I enjoyed reading that.

And although this thread has basically come down to me straight-out gloating, I can't seem to help it. Maybe it's that aforementioned inferiority/insecurity complex

Graduated 1 year early (won't state the school, but let's just say it's in princeton, nj) Declined to apply for medical school and instead accepted an offer to work for a major pharmaceutical company. Have just completed 2 years of work there, co-sponsoring a hemophilia b consumer project, and will wrap up the remediation activities for a bone morphogenetic protein product by the end of this summer. Accepted into medical school for the fall semester (won't say where, let's just say it's in new york city, ny).

Sure, though I might get a few kicks every now and then out of terrorizing others on a public forum, behind an online persona - you know as little about me as I know about those whom I'm amusing myself at the expense of. To spark a little controversy, to play the jerk card when the moon is right and karma is off my back - who are you to tell me otherwise?


gratz on your gre/gmat. i am also of the opinion that they are absolutely dumb and useless tests (much like the SAT). I could say the same about my mcats.

 

[VenomXTF]

LOL 2.0 GPA in highschool? I did not do a single homework at home (did some between classes though), never opened a textbook as they never left my locker, and got around a 3.5 GPA in highschool. It's not possible for highschool to be any easier. I think I can easily say that if you got a 2.0 GPA in highschool YOU ARE the retard. Not someone that got a 1200 on the SAT's which mean absolutely nothing to anyone outside the people working at college admissions. Unlike you, no one else here goes around telling everyone their SAT scores, and no one gives a damn about them either. The subject HAS NEVER come up outside of the college applications I did years ago. I'd also like you to find me one 2 year CC that offers the courses I listed in my post (if you're too slow to figure it out, no I went to a 4 year University). Did you stop to think for a second why you are the single and only one with your twisted and retarded view of SAT scores? No one else has come in here with a 1600 and stated they agree with you. Wonder why? What did you major in btw?

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

holy crap, a nerd fight over SAT scores :laugh:

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
LOL 2.0 GPA in highschool? I did not do a single homework at home (did some between classes though), never opened a textbook as they never left my locker, and got around a 3.5 GPA in highschool. It's not possible for highschool to be any easier. I think I can easily say that if you got a 2.0 GPA in highschool YOU ARE the retard. Not someone that got a 1200 on the SAT's which mean absolutely nothing to anyone outside the people working at college admissions. Unlike you, no one else here goes around telling everyone their SAT scores, and no one gives a damn about them either. The subject HAS NEVER come up outside of the college applications I did years ago. I'd also like you to find me one 2 year CC that offers the courses I listed in my post (if you're too slow to figure it out, no I went to a 4 year University). Did you stop to think for a second why you are the single and only one with your twisted and retarded view of SAT scores? No one else has come in here with a 1600 and stated they agree with you. Wonder why? What did you major in btw?

omg.

what the hell is all that gibberish?


Dude, you know what? You win, your point supercedes mine by reason of its dominance in validity.



Now please stop replying to me, my eyes bleed when I try to get though your paragraphs. Please please please please oh GOD IT BURNS

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
holy crap, a nerd fight over SAT scores :laugh:

... and to think that before today I used to never visit the forums after 3:30.


Look what I've been missing!