because standardized testing carried when a lousy work ethic could not

[jawnbc]

Your SAT Score of 1320 Means:

You Scored Higher Than Howard Stern You Scored Higher Than George W. Bush You Scored Lower Than Al Gore You Scored Lower Than David Duchovny You Scored Lower Than Natalie Portman You Scored Lower Than Bill Gates

Your IQ is most likely in the 130-140 range

Equivalent ACT score: 30

Schools that Fit Your SAT Score: College of William and Mary New York University Boston College United States Naval Academy University of California, Berkeley

What Does Your SAT Score Mean?

Comments

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever took the SAT. But I did tutor people for it.

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

I took it but I have no idea what my score was. How do you remember such things?

[jawnbc]

My fragile sense of self in high school was almost entirely constructed on the fallacy of "I'm so much smarter than you all, I just don't do the work."

Standardized testing is integral to that sort of specious adolescent reasoning.

720M 600V. Strange thing is, I took the GRE's more recently and can't recall those scores at all...

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's any way to find out?

[jawnbc]

After a quick review of the archives:

GRE scores 2002:

M730 V600 Logic630

And after killing so many brain cells...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Such a good question.
I never took it because I was already in college so I didn't need to take it.

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Your SAT Score of 1460 Means:

You Scored Higher Than Howard Stern You Scored Higher Than George W. Bush You Scored Higher Than Al Gore You Scored Higher Than David Duchovny You Scored Higher Than Natalie Portman You Scored Lower Than Bill Gates

Your IQ is most likely in the 140-150 range

Equivalent ACT score: 33

Schools that Fit Your SAT Score: Deep Springs College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pomona College Harvey Mudd College

What Does Your SAT Score Mean?

I put this up somewhat reluctantly, but note that I went to a high school that was out of control geek-hell. No one noticed a score below 1500. One of my friends had people rush to offer condolensces on her 1360. She now has a BA from Cornell, a PhD from Stanford, a job at Rand, regular appearances on foreign policy-oriented pundit shows, & a career fast tracking towards the Cabinet. Clearly, she's suffered from her 1360.

Another classmate got a 1600, & took it again to show that he could get a 1600 a second time. And did.

Jeez, we were *so* screwed up.

[jawnbc]

Mine wasn't wholly like that, but our "honors" program sure was. We the benighted 24 were told that anything less than Ivy League (or Iron league: MIT, Stanford, Caltech, RPI etc) would be a waste.

I was ranked 27 of 212, but managed to get into Penn. But I couldn't fathom going 40k$ into debt--back in 82 the yearlies added up to 13k$.

My posse: tech millionaire, chem researcher, surgeon, vetr. Me? I'm a lowly material post-structural adult educational sociologist. ;)

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Looking back, I just shake my head at having had classmates who treated Cornell as a safety school. Sheesh.

I wasn't in school long after you; I only made it to Cornell & my brother to Wesleyan because our great grand aunt discovered she was rich at 89. Otherwise, we were totally screwed. I managed to do that to myself with the Ph.D. debt, but that's another story.

[jawnbc]

I started @ Rutgers, flunked out (OK dropped out after almost flunking out in one semester). Scrambled, ended up at a middling "state school", and managed to graduate on time with so-so grades.

Fast forward 11 years and my fun underemployed job was not so much fun. A one year masters sans-thesis became a 2 year MA. That set me back $30k (mostly living expenses; fees are low au Canada).

The PhD was free, however :D But I had a 3 year fellowship and subsequently busted both nuts to submit 5 weeks before the 3rd year ended (and defended 6 weeks into year 4.

:)

[beverly-sutphin.livejournal.com]

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

[jawnbc]

I saw notitleyet in the closet making a baby, and then I saw the baby and then she ate the baby.

[jeneration.livejournal.com]

I was just the same! Did no work and relied on stuff like this to prove I was "better" than the people around me who were nothing like me and gave me a very hard time. The grades were pretty good, though.
Of course, no SAT in Australia, but we had the QCS test in QLD (somewhat similar from what I understand) and I only lost 5 marks on that (can't remember what it was out of though, 400 I think - which would be roughly equivalent to SAT of 1580).

Strangely enough, when I became more personally fulfilled (once I started uni), even though I never did any work in the first place, my scholastic achievement took a nose dive. Guess I had subconsciouly decided that I didn't need to prove anything anymore.

My teachers were horrified that I had "failed to fulfill my potential". I think that the only potential I had at school was to turn into a messed up suicide statistic.