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Celebrities' SAT scores revealed amid controversy over regrading
UIK Daily Mail ^ | March 7, 2014 | DAILY MAIL REPORTER

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: celebrity; clinton; sat
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To: kiryandil

I didn’t know SAT was a requirement when Clinton started college.

Also, a score of 1020 is required to play college football.


21 posted on 03/07/2014 9:47:55 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: kiryandil
"meanwhile stand-up comedian Janeane Garofalo is thought to have scored around 950."

Well, that just made my day!!!!!

22 posted on 03/07/2014 9:48:02 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: ameribbean expat
How the hell do you get a 1020 on your SAT and a Rhodes scholarship...

It's easy if you're an America hating democrat.

23 posted on 03/07/2014 9:49:05 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: kiryandil

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.


24 posted on 03/07/2014 9:50:02 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: kiryandil

Geee...

Mine was 1430 (1973)
Does that count for something?...


25 posted on 03/07/2014 9:50:18 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Lx

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.


26 posted on 03/07/2014 9:54:15 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: rarestia

I didn’t even take the SAT, I did take the ACT. I did fairly well on the that.


27 posted on 03/07/2014 9:55:58 AM PST by defconw (Well now what?)
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To: kiryandil

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.


28 posted on 03/07/2014 9:59:34 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: rarestia
I’ve always been a decent taker of standardized tests, but I know people who are astronomically more intelligent than me who scored abysmally on the SATs. Intelligence is not an objective measure despite what they want people to believe.

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.

29 posted on 03/07/2014 10:00:30 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: kiryandil

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.


30 posted on 03/07/2014 10:04:23 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: ameribbean expat

A VERY good question.


31 posted on 03/07/2014 10:04:53 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: Labyrinthos

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.


32 posted on 03/07/2014 10:08:24 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: kiryandil

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


33 posted on 03/07/2014 10:08:40 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: kiryandil

What’s this “reportedly,” “believed to have,” and “thought to have”? Either they have the scores, or not.


34 posted on 03/07/2014 10:08:44 AM PST by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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To: HangnJudge

You forgot to add in inflation, so more comparatively to 1588 today. Congratulations!!


35 posted on 03/07/2014 10:09:46 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: defconw
I didn’t even take the SAT, I did take the ACT. I did fairly well on the that.

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.

36 posted on 03/07/2014 10:21:47 AM PST by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: kiryandil

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?


37 posted on 03/07/2014 10:22:58 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Labyrinthos
“According to the article, “Kesha” scored a 1500. Perhaps, but she is probably young enough to have taken the three part SAT with a maximum score of 2400.”

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 $$

38 posted on 03/07/2014 10:24:51 AM PST by varyouga
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To: kiryandil
Clinton - 1020
GWB - 1206

Limbaugh - 1530
O'Reilly - 1585
Ben Stein - 1573

Janeane Garofalo - 950
Bill Cosby - lower than 500 (Hey, hey, hey!)

No lefty press listed. Where's Wolf Blitzer?!

39 posted on 03/07/2014 10:28:08 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: yarddog

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.


40 posted on 03/07/2014 10:29:06 AM PST by grania
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