Posted on 10/17/2004 10:18:18 AM PDT by jwalsh07
List of people by SAT score. Check out Jhengis Johnny and the Slickster. Al Gore evidently had somebody take the SAT's for him because nobody acquires that much stupid.
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As my sister use to tell her children, I am 3 days older than dirt.
During the 70s at Rice, it wasn't uncommon to have small junior to grad level course sizes of 3-15 students per course with at least one 1600 SAT score recipient in class with you. Few scored below 1300 and they still scored on a strict bell curve. For a course of 15 students, 5 received 1s or 2s (As or Bs), 5 received 3s, (Cs) and the other 5 received 4s and 5s (Ds and Fs). Typically students would only get 4.5 to 5 hrs sleep per night, one all-nighter per week, and would measure their devotion by the number of minutes or fractional hours per week not spent on study.
Yes, there are lots of guys who score 1600 on the SAT. Many of them didn't get straight A's in high school, but typically had varied interests.
The site also links to a Time magazine article which got the scores directly from the people.
Not to laugh at a dead guy, but Paul Wellstone scored under 800!!! No wonder he stayed a liberal.
yes...grading was once harder.
today's failry common 3.9 was almost unheard of in the 60s and 70s.
I figure these numbers are just made up. PBS’s FRONTLINE has a two-part series on Clinton’s life in which they state that he was a National Merit Scholar Semifinalist. That would be a matter of public record, and that would put him in the top 1-2% of those who took the test, Merit Scholars being based on SAT scores. So this posting has no credibility whatsover. Just in case anyone at this website has any interest whatsoever in the truth. Which I doubt.
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What we do know is Bill Clinton received a Fulbright Schlorship to Oxford. So he may well have been a Merit schlor. Long Ago.
Enjoy!
Scholar instead of Schalor
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