Vanity - Anyone know Kerry's SAT scores?

[Conservomax]

Does anybody know what John Kerry got on his SAT's? I ask because I haven't heard anything about Bush's (above average) SAT scores in a while. I'm sure if Kerry outscored him, it would be a national talking piece.

I know Kerry had a great education, and I am sure he probably did fairly well, but I wonder because I haven't heard anything about it.

[petercooper]

SAT scores don't matter if you've been in Vietnam.

[wagglebee]

The must have been low, he's never brought it up.

[jwalsh07]

Sorry I don't know but I do know his condescension quotient is off the scale.

[LibWhacker]

He had good SAT scores, before he got bad ones.

[Peach]

Could you ping me if you find out? I'd love to know.

[LibWhacker]

He had good SAT scores, before he got bad ones.

[lonevoice]

"My F'n SAT scores are none of your F'n business!" JF'nK

[NativeNewYorker]

If the press doesn't report his SATs daily, they're lower than W's.

[dennisw]

I'm sure he had very good scores. He has that kind of intelligence.

[dennisw]

I'm sure he had very good scores. He has (had?) that kind of intelligence.

[Congressman Billybob]

Kerry probably was in the top 1% on his SATs, 1,600+. It was certainly in the top 2%. That's what it took to get into Yale when he and I were there. LOL.

The question is not whether he has raw intelligence. It is whether he has an ounce of common sense, or a small dose of integrity, to go with that intelligence. Kerry was lacking those things in college, and he doesn't seemed to have grown any of those since then.

Congressman Billybob

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[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I hear he got a 666 on his Verbal scores.

[mikrofon]

If you mean Senatorial Arrogance Test, I'm sure he's way up there...

[Pharmboy]

I just had abdominal surgery on Thursday and I LOL'd at your post and it hurt! (It was worth it though...)

[FreedomCalls]

Bush/Gore Grades and SAT Scores (posted March 23, 2000)

Confidential college transcripts and test scores obtained by the Washington Post reveal that neither presidential candidate, George W. Bush nor Al Gore, were shining students during their college days at Yale and Harvard, respectively. Although each earned respectable scores on the SAT college admissions test (a total of 1355 of 1600 for Gore and 1206 for Bush), neither did that well in their college courses. Both earned a mix of B and C grades. Gore's lowest grade of D came in a natural sciences course, while his top grades were an A in French and English, an A in Visual and Environmental Studies, and an A- in Social Relations. Bush's lowest marks were a 70 (of 100) in Sociology and a 71 in Economics, while his highest scores were High Passes in History and Japanese.

	Bush	Gore
SAT Verbal Score	566 (of 800)	625 (of 800)
SAT Math Score	640 (of 800)	730 (of 800)
Undergraduate Transcript
Political Science/Govt classes	73 (of 100) in PS14a	C- in Govt16
	71 (of 100) in PS13b	C in Govt 116
	Pass in PS48	B in Govt 1a
		A- in Govt154
		B+ in Govt98
		Satisfactory in Govt99
		B- in Govt103
		Pass in Govt130

Source: Washington Post, March 19, 2000

[FreedomCalls]

The link for the above.

[LibWhacker]

I'm sorry.

:-)

BTW, get will soon, Pharmboy!

[varon]

Anyone know Kerry's SAT scores?

Judging from his campaign performance I would guess his SAT score is the same as his IQ, 92 ;-)

[driftless]

You make an extremely cogent point. There are some very bad leaders from the past who undoubtedly had very high iqs like Lenin. I'm not going to put down raw intelligence, but remember George Bernard Shaw and Albert Einstein both thought soviet-style communism was great stuff and the wave of future. Intelligence has to be combined with other elements as you have pointed out. Churchill did poorly in school, and his father despaired for his future. We know the rest of the story.