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

ACT score of 26 in 1979. Went to Abilene Christian. Unrecruited, unloved, unmourned.

25 ACT

400m- 53 800m- 2:05 1600m- 4:37 3200m- 9:53

i was not recruited and I didnt want to run in college. I want to coach

runnerwhoprofesses wrote:

1413.

Graduated summa from the Harvard of Canada.

PhD.

Everyone compares themselves to Harvard

I love it.

Duke is the Harvard of the south.

Harvard of Canada

Stanford is the Harvard of the PAC10

Blah blah blah

Saying you graduated from Harvard trumps everything.

2190 / 33

University of Virginia

Recruited but not to anywhere I wanted to go

35 ACT

Was recruited by mid-major D1 and Some top D2 teams. Had meetings with the 3 top 10 D1 teams who offered a walk on spot. Chose to go to a D2 school with respected academics and perennially good XC team. No regrets.

33 ACT, studying computer science at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

lol1 wrote:

runnerwhoprofesses wrote:

1413.

Graduated summa from the Harvard of Canada.

PhD.

Everyone compares themselves to Harvard

I love it.

Duke is the Harvard of the south.

Harvard of Canada

Stanford is the Harvard of the PAC10

Blah blah blah

Saying you graduated from Harvard trumps everything.

I love it when people say that they graduated from Harvard as if that is supposed to impress someone.

"Well, I can't impress you with the power of my ideas so perhaps I should mention that I am from Harvard."

Great. That and $2 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

lol1 wrote:

runnerwhoprofesses wrote:

1413.

Graduated summa from the Harvard of Canada.

PhD.

Everyone compares themselves to Harvard

I love it.

Duke is the Harvard of the south.

Harvard of Canada

Stanford is the Harvard of the PAC10

Blah blah blah

Saying you graduated from Harvard trumps everything.

because at Harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim

ACT- 28

NAU- undergrad

Arkansas State- Masters

LOL^n wrote:

lol1 wrote:

Everyone compares themselves to Harvard

I love it.

Duke is the Harvard of the south.

Harvard of Canada

Stanford is the Harvard of the PAC10

Blah blah blah

Saying you graduated from Harvard trumps everything.

I love it when people say that they graduated from Harvard as if that is supposed to impress someone.

"Well, I can't impress you with the power of my ideas so perhaps I should mention that I am from Harvard."

Great. That and $2 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

MIT people are much more blatant about it. I can't tell you how many times I've heard random old dudes around Boston mention that they went to MIT apropos of nothing (see what I did there?).

Anyway, 1580/Warshington Univarsity in San Luis

LOL^n wrote:

Great. That and $2 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

Which Starbucks has a $2 cup of coffee?

I don't have a high school diploma nor have I ever taken the SAT. I did get a GED in the crotch. I went to many colleges part-time while working and raising 6 children. I have degrees from UCSD and Cal.

Truth is I didn't do well on SATs.

1060, 560 math 500 verbal

24 ACT - verbal score brought me down again

Mile PR in high school was 5:30

Went to a perennial academic top 20 DIII school and graduated in four years.

Walked on for track and cross country and improved mile time by more than a minute.

Ended up at a top 5 grad school in my field of study and kept improving a runner into my late 20s and 30s.

All good but my stock went downhill when I started posting on Letsrun.

13:44 5k pr wrote:

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

Good thing Oxford doesn't offer the degree "Ph.D."

1400

Maryland

Oxford

Johns Hopkins

Sat score wrote:

24 overall, 32 science - 2.54 GPA, bottom half of class. Went to EIU had great grades and GRE score - biggest win was starting research with Chem prof as a sophomore - then Northwestern Ph.D., and Columbia Post-Doc.

Also, did you get recruited or not

yes, offers from DePaul and EIU - went to EIU because it was affordable if I had to quit running and I liked the coach.

It ain't how you start but how you finish :)

2210 SAT

Columbia

I got a 778. I went to the University of Oregon.

Funny how nearly everyone who has posed so far is either in the 95th percentile if not 99+. Either runners are much smarter than average or we have some serious self selection going on.

1400 / 31

(very high math and science scores, low writing)

Texas Tech, Engineering

Was not recruited but worked my way into a scholarship later.