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

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Comments

[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.

:)