Posted on 03/07/2014 9:26:15 AM PST by kiryandil
As controversy grows over the regrading of SAT examinations, thousands of people have started sharing their own scores on social networks to put future generations at ease.
Well-known figures have been conspicuously quiet about their results, however, but with the likes of Ke$ha, James Woods and Natalie Portman reportedly getting close to a perfect 1600, perhaps they felt they'd only add pressure rather than ease it.
Famous faces with far lower SAT scores include Bill Cosby, who got a score lower than 500, Sopranos actress Drea De Matteo, believed to have scored around 800, and even former US President Bill Clinton, whose 1020 puts him a few hundred points below successor George W Bush...
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I didn’t know SAT was a requirement when Clinton started college.
Also, a score of 1020 is required to play college football.
Well, that just made my day!!!!!
It's easy if you're an America hating democrat.
This leads me to one of my theories. Those who can and do, are conservative. Those who can’t or won’t and need the government to “level the playing field” are liberal. This is where all that “winners of life’s lottery” cr@p came from.
Geee...
Mine was 1430 (1973)
Does that count for something?...
I would like to know the source of the SAT scores because I really doubt that Garofalo would have gotten into Providence College and Stern would have gotten into Boston University with those scores. I also note that both Garofalo and Stern took the old SAT exam before the scoring was statistically re-centered in 1995, and as a result, their scores are about 100 points lower than what they would have scored if they took the post-1995 exam.
I didn’t even take the SAT, I did take the ACT. I did fairly well on the that.
I have a hard time believing Algore scored a 1355. I wonder how many times he had to take it to get that. And I wonder if that’s his original score or if it’s been converted to the post-1996 scale which would add about 150 points. Coming at it from the other direction, Bush’s 1206 would probably be about a 1350 nowadays.
I’m also having a hard time believing El Rushbo got so close to a perfect score. Maybe on the verbal side but I’ve heard him do math in public.
The SAT is not an intelligence test; rather the test results statistically correlate with the ability to succeed in college based upon the academic standards of the particular institution. The SAT is a predictor of success, not a measure of intelligence.
If they can’t show a piece of paper that indicates the score, they are lying.
The fact that Obama has not, cannot, release his scores speaks volumes. Were they released, the unsupported theory that he is a ‘genius’ or ‘exceptionally intelligent’ would be dispelled.
A VERY good question.
I suspect that the SAT has “evolved” over the decades, so the SAT us older folk took does not even compare to the SAT given now.
I not surprise with James Woods I hear that he was about two classes away of graduing from MIT but the acting bug got him
What’s this “reportedly,” “believed to have,” and “thought to have”? Either they have the scores, or not.
You forgot to add in inflation, so more comparatively to 1588 today. Congratulations!!
Same with me. Luckily, I took the ACT on the last possible date to qualify for a ROTC scholarship. In the space of a few months, my plans changed from attending a local state university, and working part-time to pay for it, to attending a private university 900 miles from home at no cost to my parents.
It was a pretty heady experience, getting promo materials from 100+ schools. I was even pulled out of class when a recruiter made an unannounced visit to speak with me. He was a bad-a$$ Airborne Ranger Major: he signed up me and another 20 students for the freshman class. All but one of us stuck it out four years, and we stay in touch as much as possible.
I was in the middle of my class, leaving active duty after 8 years. We had one two-star, several full birds, and a smattering of other ranks. At least 5 got their Ranger tabs, and over half earned Jump Wings (including me).
Best thing that ever happened to me.
I have no idea what my SAT scores were....but...didn’t they change the standards at some point? So comparisons of those who took it in the 60’s & 70’s vs. the 90’s be silly?
She's old enough to have taken the 1600 version.
She's actually very intelligent, conservative in real life and a music prodigy. However she sold out to act as a slut while performing for $$
No lefty press listed. Where's Wolf Blitzer?!
Vocabulary kept me down too. The problem was those no-context lists where you had to choose the best of five choices. I read too much into them sometimes.
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