Posted on 10/17/2014 4:26:44 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Meredith, a senior, has recently been honored as the “Head Girl” at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, due to her perfect score of 2400 on the SAT and 36 on the ACT.
Meredith took both tests in only one sitting, within one week of each other. Meredith is humble about her accomplishment: “The SAT and ACT are not easy tests, by any means, so I feel fortunate to have achieved the scores I did. The values of hard work and confidence that my school, Holy Spirit Prep, and my family have instilled in me since Day 1 certainly played a big role in the results. I’m proud of what I accomplished, but never could have achieved it without the support of the people around me.”
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Unfortunate nickname but that aside, pretty impressive achievement.
Smart and gracious. There’s a rare combination.
Anyone know how often this happens. I can’t imagine more than a few being able to do this.
La Raza and their “dreamers” aren’t going to be happy about this. Everyone knows that the La Raza “dreamers” are the smartest people on the planet.
My daughter took the ACT in June and almost got a perfect score, 35 out of 36. It was the first time she took it, and she didn’t have any special tutoring.
So far, she’s been offered a full out of state tuition to University of Alabama.
She’s not applying to the Ivies. She’s visited Duke and Stanford and she just wants to be at a larger university.
I’m really proud of her!!
From something I read a few months ago, less than ten kids manage this perfect double each year.
That’s OUR parish school! :-)
Duke, Stanford, or Alabama - tough choice.
We had three or four at my prep school, University School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, at that time during the Sixties. We didn’t think that much about it. Everybody got high scores.
I had a high school classmate who aced the SAT, went on to a Fulbright Scholarship. Fairly unusual for a public high school in a semi-rural county. I did pretty well on it myself, but that was completely overshadowed, lol.
Duke has a gorgeous campus and they’re big time in NCAA basketball, but other than that I’d have a hard time saying it was a larger university. Enrollment is dwarfed by some of the state universities.
She should go to Yale - just because her brother went to Harvard.
Well done Mom ..!!
I wouldn’t be so quick to recommend some of those huge enrollment state universities to this type of super achiever. There are problems enough with the “Ivies,” the public Ivies,” Duke, and Stanford, but at those schools the super-achiever student is surrounded (for the most part) with his/her intellectual peers. Not that there aren’t achievers at those huge schools, but as a % of the student body, not so many.
Meredith is far more likely to find a large # of other students who got perfect and near perfect scores at any Ivy or “Public Ivy,” or Duke/Stanford level of competitive entry university with their selective 15K enrollments than at a state university of 45K.
I think you mis-read.
She’s choosing to go to Alabama because it IS a larger school than Duke or Stanford.
I wasn’t so much recommending as commenting upon the daughter’s stated preference for a larger university. Duke is certainly 1st tier with a national reputation and a very well-known men’s basketball team. But, it’s really not that large of a school as far as total student body.
Maybe it’s a degree of unfamiliarity combined with unconscious acceptance of the SEC stereotype, but the only SEC school I’ve ever thought had an outstanding academic reputation is Vanderbilt.
I had a friend who scored a 1490 on the SATs when a perfect score was 1600. 99+ percentile. Yes, he’s smart. Head and shoulders above everyone else in most intellectual respects? Not really, and not noticeably to anyone who didn’t know.
Most students take one or the other, not both. That limits the possible universe quite a bit.
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