What'd you get on your sat/act and where did you go to college

Didn't take them. Paris Island for undergrad, Kabul U for grad. I got recruited alright.

29 ACT

University of Wisconsin

1480 (/1600). UW Madison. In state tuition. Blondie babes galore.

1578 (not a typo) SAT out of 1600. The 1995 recentering of SAT scores moved that to 1600/1600. I was accepted by Caltech (second choice) and Stanford (third choice) but ultimately went to Cornell, in a special program that was intended to result in PhDs six years after starting undergrad.

I stunk as an athlete and was recruited (for academics) only by Michigan State.

1340/1600 and 31.

Accepted to UF with a full academic scholarship. Suck on that losers.

32/1440 and went to Hope College (MI) to run XC. Never ran a race and dropped out after a semester.

1410, uconn, no

2090 (770 Q / 660 both English sections). Maryland. No scholarship or anything; I was lucky to even get in. My high school GPA was like a 3.1. I didn't start doing well until college.

1370/1600. University of Hartford. Didn't run track, played golf on a ride. Dropped out to tour the country in a punk rock band after 1st year, never went back. No ragrets.

1413.

Graduated summa from the Harvard of Canada.

PhD.

36 ACT. Undergrad at Harvard, Masters at Yale, PHD at Oxford.

I also date Swedish Bikini models and make $360k/year

1990, but I basically failed the writing section (as I also did on the GRE).

1500 SAT/33 or 34 ACT (can't remember); Harvard undergrad; not recruited but walked on and ran varsity all four yrs

ACT: Science 34, Math 33, Reading 28, English 24, Overall 29

PRs in high school: 400m 54, 800m 2:05, 1600m 4:48, 3200m 10:20

I was not recruited by anyone and ended up going to a private school.

pre 1974 unrecentered score 1411/1600. Went into the workforce only about 12-14% of HS grads went on to college. ... and then the college or Vietnam paradigm of the draft coupled with the glut of first wave baby boomers started driving the numbers upwards.

Ho Li Shiet. Maybe the thread title self selects for a certain type of poster but we got some elite minds on here and who are fast distance runners. Whew! Harvard, Caltech, etc! and fairly common.

I knew folks on LRC are quite intelligent but dis was amazin

That said, it is ( or at least was... The tests might be changing recently) my belief that If high schoolers deliberately prep for the tests, by taking practice ones, trying the reals their junior year, then figuring out their weak points and getting calculus, high algebra and advanced English coverage by senior year, a score approaching perfect is attainable for most. Kind of like a sub 16 or something like that.

Nice job boys! (And ladies)

940/1600 SAT. I went to Occidental transferred to Columbia, end up at Harvard Law. Went on to a career in politics and now some people call me the most powerful man in the world. And no I did not get recruited.

Crystal_Palace_Flaneur wrote:

Ho Li Shiet. Maybe the thread title self selects for a certain type of poster but we got some elite minds on here and who are fast distance runners. Whew! Harvard, Caltech, etc! and fairly common.

I knew folks on LRC are quite intelligent but dis was amazin

That said, it is ... my belief that If high schoolers deliberately prep for the tests, by taking practice ones, etc. ... a score approaching perfect is attainable for most. Kind of like a sub 16 or something like that.

Nice job boys! (And ladies)

No. It is not. Not even remotely close.

No Mann wrote:

Crystal_Palace_Flaneur wrote:

Ho Li Shiet. Maybe the thread title self selects for a certain type of poster but we got some elite minds on here and who are fast distance runners. Whew! Harvard, Caltech, etc! and fairly common.

I knew folks on LRC are quite intelligent but dis was amazin

That said, it is ... my belief that If high schoolers deliberately prep for the tests, by taking practice ones, etc. ... a score approaching perfect is attainable for most. Kind of like a sub 16 or something like that.

Nice job boys! (And ladies)

No. It is not. Not even remotely close.

So if one did get a near perfect score, but also did a lot of prep work but could have learned more calculus,

Is this indeed unusual, special and indication of a talent , a veritable asset durable throughout life?

Is this cause for confidence?

Or could the person still be a loser.

Damned if they do, damned is they don't?