What did you score on your SATs, if you remember?

[skypilot]

1460

 

[jimmygates]

Originally posted by: Broohaha
1460

 

[FuzzyBee]

760 math
650 verbal

1989

Back when I was in high school, we couldn't bring caaaaalculators in the SAT. We couldn't even bring in pencils. We had topoke ourselves and fill in the circle in blood. And we liked it! No, we loved it!

 

[Konigin]

I got like a 5, I suck.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: jimmypop
sat score, unfortunately, doesn't do college coursework for you.

that's the truth. :sigh:

 

[Thied1]

I only took it once.. 1400, with 710 verbal 690 math. My PSAT was good enough to be a National Merit Finalist, but not good enough to get me any scholarhips

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
1080 on the PSAT first time in freshman. im a sophomore now and im shooting for 1200s this year on the PSATs. next year for the real SAT im aiming around upper 1300s. its gonna be tough. hopefully i can make it to berkeley or ucla.

Aren't Berkeley and UCLA hard?

yea, but i have a realistic chance of going in the way things are looking now. if i can hit 1390 in my junior year, i can probably make it to LA or berkeley. and i think i can do that. all my relatives scored higher than that, and im hoping i can do the same.

 

666

 

[alkemyst]

I wanted to add, since now I have talked with some people....

Braindump and the web are the key to success on this and almost any other test now-a-days.

Back in 1988, there wasn't even a web...but we would talk about such things...there just wasn't an easy media like today.

Today's educated student has alot of tools at his disposal. Braindumps are not cheating really for the good student. You are going to know your stuff since you perfected it the last 5, 10, 18 years....it's just a guaranteed (more or less) outcome for some stupid line in the sand educators draw.

And for every truly smart candidate there is probably some family somewhere throwing up to and over $100k to get junior a perfect 1600 to be an alumni at Yale like Snookums.

 

[FoBoT]

i took them in the spring of 1984

verbal: 630
math: 620

i'm well balanced-average

 

[Corporate Thug]

1310, averaged 700 in SAT II's

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I wanted to add, since now I have talked with some people....

Braindump and the web are the key to success on this and almost any other test now-a-days.

Back in 1988, there wasn't even a web...but we would talk about such things...there just wasn't an easy media like today.

Today's educated student has alot of tools at his disposal. Braindumps are not cheating really for the good student. You are going to know your stuff since you perfected it the last 5, 10, 18 years....it's just a guaranteed (more or less) outcome for some stupid line in the sand educators draw.

And for every truly smart candidate there is probably some family somewhere throwing up to and over $100k to get junior a perfect 1600 to be an alumni at Yale like Snookums.

Sadly, a 1600 won't even magically get you into Harvard or MIT,etc. Our Valedictorian has a 1600, not to mention flawless grades, etc, and was denied from Harvard, deferred from MIT. Our school is ranked ~50th in the nation.

 

[Corporate Thug]

only 50% of 1600's get into stanford

 

[glugglug]

800 math 620 verbal

 

[MarklarMarklar]

Didn't take the SAT but scored 32 on the ACT. Unlike most of you, the math section was my lowest score.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I wanted to add, since now I have talked with some people....

Braindump and the web are the key to success on this and almost any other test now-a-days.

Back in 1988, there wasn't even a web...but we would talk about such things...there just wasn't an easy media like today.

Today's educated student has alot of tools at his disposal. Braindumps are not cheating really for the good student. You are going to know your stuff since you perfected it the last 5, 10, 18 years....it's just a guaranteed (more or less) outcome for some stupid line in the sand educators draw.

And for every truly smart candidate there is probably some family somewhere throwing up to and over $100k to get junior a perfect 1600 to be an alumni at Yale like Snookums.

Sadly, a 1600 won't even magically get you into Harvard or MIT,etc. Our Valedictorian has a 1600, not to mention flawless grades, etc, and was denied from Harvard, deferred from MIT. Our school is ranked ~50th in the nation.

That's borderline unbeliveable (I can see a 1600 getting shot down, but also Valedictorian of a 50th in nation school....), but I can imagine how many 'alumni' enter each year, as well as 'ACE students'. Were they just a bookworm? did they do anything other than school? that makes a big difference.

You have so many 'kids' with perfect scores but nothing else showing for them...they got the 4.5 max or even 5.0 their school offered, 1600 SAT/36 ACT....dean's list, honor roll, name printed in the Who's Who...but nothing else, no Job, no car, no life.

Schools look at that as nothing. Those types usually have 1 or 2 great undergrad years and then get lost in the whole real world with school, and external requirements...even up to attempting suicide.

 

[Pilsnerpete]

I have the score dnstrs, but seeing how I'm not down there, suffice it to say I could have done better if I'd taken it my senior year instead of junior.

 

[dukdukgoos]

1380

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
800 verbal, 650 Math. This was the first try, but this was also after they re-centered the scores in 1996.

800 verbal, 640 math here, 2000

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I know seven people who got 1600s and dozens from my HS who got 1450 or higher. I was in the low end of my group of friends lol...

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I wanted to add, since now I have talked with some people....

Braindump and the web are the key to success on this and almost any other test now-a-days.

Back in 1988, there wasn't even a web...but we would talk about such things...there just wasn't an easy media like today.

Today's educated student has alot of tools at his disposal. Braindumps are not cheating really for the good student. You are going to know your stuff since you perfected it the last 5, 10, 18 years....it's just a guaranteed (more or less) outcome for some stupid line in the sand educators draw.

And for every truly smart candidate there is probably some family somewhere throwing up to and over $100k to get junior a perfect 1600 to be an alumni at Yale like Snookums.

Sadly, a 1600 won't even magically get you into Harvard or MIT,etc. Our Valedictorian has a 1600, not to mention flawless grades, etc, and was denied from Harvard, deferred from MIT. Our school is ranked ~50th in the nation.

That's borderline unbeliveable (I can see a 1600 getting shot down, but also Valedictorian of a 50th in nation school....), but I can imagine how many 'alumni' enter each year, as well as 'ACE students'. Were they just a bookworm? did they do anything other than school? that makes a big difference.

You have so many 'kids' with perfect scores but nothing else showing for them...they got the 4.5 max or even 5.0 their school offered, 1600 SAT/36 ACT....dean's list, honor roll, name printed in the Who's Who...but nothing else, no Job, no car, no life.

Schools look at that as nothing. Those types usually have 1 or 2 great undergrad years and then get lost in the whole real world with school, and external requirements...even up to attempting suicide.

I know some people who got 1550+ on the SAT and come from one of the top 10 (or 3, depending on the scale) public schools in the nation and the best schools they got into were UCLA/UCB.

 

[udonoogen]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
1080 on the PSAT first time in freshman. im a sophomore now and im shooting for 1200s this year on the PSATs. next year for the real SAT im aiming around upper 1300s. its gonna be tough. hopefully i can make it to berkeley or ucla.

my housemate got in the 1100's and he got into berkeley. best of luck!

edit: its been said before ... but its not your SAT score that does your coursework ... once you get here you got to work your butt off because it seems everyone here is hella smart except you (or so it seems)

 

[SilentZero]

The first time I scored a 1280, and the second time after the Kaplan SAT course (i think that was what its called) and alot of studying, scored a 1460. Took them about 1 year apart.

 

[Nitemare]

1300 back when they actually made it hard at the beginning of my junior year

 

[pandiebeer]

I can't really remember but the number 980 keeps coming to mind, but then I think, did I really do that bad -probably. I took the ACT too and got a 23. I know I was horrible at math (damn those fractions...and what's up with the letters?) but I graduated with a 3.4 GPA somehow.