How did you do on the SAT?

[tbach24]

I got a 1310 last fall on my first try. 710 on math and 600 for verbal. I'm kind of upset about how they changed it because some of my strengths were taken away.

[Brainwalter]

730 m 790 v, only try

[Daliman]

820 back in 83, before the scores were pumped up some

420 math, 400 verbal

Course, I was 12. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Brainwalter]

Doh!

[ononimo]

1520 - 780 Verbal, 740 Math (1992)
Princeton Review worked for me!

[PoBoy321]

I have no idea what the SATs are like now that they've changed them. I took them 2 years ago and got 1480, 760 Math, 720 verbal.

[tbach24]

They took out comparative and added essays. Comparative is what kept me afloat on the verbal. I think there's more pre-calc stuff on the math. Not sure though. Also, there's not much difference between algebra 2 and pre-calc.

[whiskeytown]

1360

720 Math, 640 English, and this was springing the last 7 blocks to the test center cause a goddamn deer ran my truck into the ditch on my way to the testing center...

RB

[fluxrad]

650 math.
800 verbal.

i cant add but i no how to speek good!

[SmileyEH]

800 verbal, 760 math.

Got 1430 the first time - just goes to show you standardized tests are foolish.

-SmileyEH

[kurosh]

sat: 1570 verbal: 770 math:800
sat 2: math:800 physics:750 english:dont remember
act: 35 math:36 reading:36 science: 34 (whatever the other one is, i think english): 35

i was top 10% of my class with a 3.6gpa. had wrestling as a sport and several clubs. won tons of award in the intellectual clubs.

stanford rejected me, cornell rejected me, mit rejected me.
u of i accepted me then kicked me out mid 2nd semester.

college is a bitch.

[SmileyEH]

What is a 3.6GPA on a scale to 100?

-SmileyEH

[tbach24]

Yeah that's brutal. Friend of my bro got rejected by Princeton with all A's in all his classes. He had taken all APs or better since Junior year and got a 1600 first try and 800 on all SAT 2's. He was a tri-varsity athlete Junior and Senior year and did a lot of community service and extracuriculars. I'm not sure what to make of it besides the fact that he was probably was a retard on the tour (he is wicked arrogant).

[Popinjay]

740 math
760 verbal

only try besides taking it in 6th grade (1340)

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

1540. 800 verbal, 740 math.

[billyjex]

you guys are a bunch of nerds.

I got an 1190.

[mantasm]

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1540. 800 verbal, 740 math.

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those are my exact scores. OMG TWINZ!!1 liek WTF??

This is a nerdy poll.

[tbach24]

You guys are smart. I used to think I was smart but now know that I'm mediocre. [censored].

[tolbiny]

1350-
but that was falling asleep inbetween sections bacuse the night before the car following us took the wrong turn off the highway, and we had to turn around at the next exit, and catch up to them which added several hours to the trip and i got to bed around 5.

[DougOzzzz]

Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

[Jman28]

800 Math
690 Verbal

I don't know what any words mean. That made the Verbal section hard.

-Jman28

[Popinjay]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

[Jman28]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

-Jman28

edit: also, if I got an 850 and saw this thread title, I wouldn't open it.

[willie]

1310.

[tbach24]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

-Jman28

edit: also, if I got an 850 and saw this thread title, I wouldn't open it.

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Yeah I heard about that from one of my friends today. He said it was like 1300+. If that's true, that's kind of easy because I got that and only have like a 125 IQ. 160 IQ is mensa I think.

[Jman28]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

-Jman28

edit: also, if I got an 850 and saw this thread title, I wouldn't open it.

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Yeah I heard about that from one of my friends today. He said it was like 1300+. If that's true, that's kind of easy because I got that and only have like a 125 IQ. 160 IQ is mensa I think.

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Nooo. It's not 160. I'm not positive, but I think it's closer to 130 or 140.

[tbach24]

What exactly is it? I honestly don't know anything about it other than what I saw on Bowfinger.

[kurosh]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

-Jman28

edit: also, if I got an 850 and saw this thread title, I wouldn't open it.

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That's a good point. The scores are skewed towards the higher ranges because people who scored lower are less apt to respond.

[Tron]

First Try (6th Grade): 1170, 610 Verbal, 560 Math
Second Try (10th Grade): 1420, ?, ?
Third Try (11th Grade): 1540, 760 Verbal, 780 Math

Yeah, it's pretty easy to boost your score 100+ points (even if you only have 180 points to go) by reading a couple of strategy books. And by "pretty easy" I mean "really, really easy."

[Chobohoya]

I hate these threads.

First try (7th grade) 1190- 650V 540M
Second try (11th grade) 1550- 750V 800M

No courses, but I did take a practice test out of a hand-me-down book from my sister.

[Jack of Arcades]

Didn't take it, I took the ACT.

35 Reading
30 English
28 Science
28 Math

30 AVG (out of 36)

[ilya]

My dad's a math professor.

English is not my first language.

I got a 730 math, 800 verbal.

I suck at math.

I think the SAT has some use as a test of intelligence. It bunches people way too much at the top, but it's good for a rough estimate: you're just not gonna score below 1100 or so if you're smart.

[Popinjay]

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I hate these threads.

First try (7th grade) 1190- 650V 540M
Second try (11th grade) 1550- 750V 800M

No courses, but I did take a practice test out of a hand-me-down book from my sister.

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Your avatar/loc is [censored] morbid dude

[Chobohoya]

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Your avatar/loc is [censored] morbid dude

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Apparently, it's also gay.

[InchoateHand]

those are more interesting---and I mean subject specific GREs, given that the general is just another SAT in disguise.

And no, I'm not remotely [censored] serious you douche.

[miajag81]

790 on each section.

[IndieMatty]

1400 730 Verbal, 670 Math.

[IsaacW]

My academic genitalia is this big: 790 M, 710 V, and I never studied.

As others have said, the SAT is not a good measure of intelligence. It's a fair measure of what you learn in the first couple years of high school; that's not really that much. It doesn't even have any calculus on it. If you're smart but don't test well, you can be pretty boned.

[DcifrThs]

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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yup...2 things though:

1) im not a fan of linking "smart" to SATs....i know guys adn gals who scored under 1200 that are extremely smart.

2) those 2p2ers who didn't do well on these tests are less likely to answer the question (even though they are anonymous)...it has been proven that even on telephone or random anonymous surveys, people lie to inflate their view of THEMSELVES and are afraid of what the pollster/polltaker would think of them.

-Barron

[xorbie]

Holy [censored], you're me. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

SAT: Got a 1490 first try (790 Math, 700 Verbal) then got a 1600 on my next try.

SAT II: Math IIC 800, Writing 780, Physics 780

GPA: 3.6

Rejected by MIT, rejected by Rice, rejected by a couple other schools, accepted at Illinois, fortunatly I'm doing fine here.

[Paluka]

I got 790 math, 690 verbal. This was back in 1991 or something so it was on the old scale, not the new one.
On the ACT I got 36-36-36-35, for a cool 36 average.

[jakethebake]

1300 with no preparation. i took it as a junior with the intention of a retake as a senior, but i overslept and never took it again. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Voltron87]

I hate this threads.

740 V, 670 M... That adds up to 1410, but I shouldn't have to add that because apparently everyone on this board got a 1600...

Took it once with no prep. I'm better at math than most people I know who got 700+, probably should have taken it more than once. Got a 5 on the AP BC Calc, for what it is worth.

[cnfuzzd]

here in missouri, we do the ACT. Which i understand is lame. I got a 32. All my friends were really stressed about it and studied for weeks leading up to the test. Not me. Didnt study at all. Went to a dance the night before (high school dances were lame) and spent most of the night having sex with my gf. Slept about 3 hours, was almost late to the test. Got a higher score than all those geeks. Man high school was lame.

peace

john nickle

[WEASEL45]

610 on math 480 english 1090 total

[JaBlue]

haha you're a moron

[Duke]

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820 back in 83, before the scores were pumped up some

420 math, 400 verbal

Course, I was 12. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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I was 12 in '89 and got a 710/400.

You probably beat me at 15.

~D

[tdarko]

first try: (Duke scholarship fund) 6th grade--500 Math 650 Verbal

second try: Junior year--650 Math 740 Verbal

third try: Senior year--600 Math 710 Verbal...yeah WTF is that about!!!!

[Isura]

1200 I think.
4 years later and I'm going to be valedictorian in computer engineering at my university, and starting grad school in math next year. I wouldn't worry too much about a mediocre score.

[Duke]

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

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Mensa is a group that preys on people so stupid that they pay someone to tell them that they're smart.

It's tough to test, though. I'll agree on that.

~D

[Dead]

1330: 700 math, 630 verbal.

~2.7 high school GPA.

Eye am nawt smart.

[theBruiser500]

i have the distinction among most of my friends of doing better on verbal than math. 750/650

[swede123]

Being the foreigner I am I didn't have to take the SAT to get into college. Instead I took the TOEFL and owned it (a dubious honor since 90% of the people who took the test with me did not speak any English).

Swede

[tolbiny]

Absolutely people lie. Just look at the number of people who toss in "additional" information (like me)- how the didn't get any sleep, car accident before hand or just the qualifier "no preparation" shows just how much we want to be valued for our intelligence. And the sat's (at least the ones i took) aren't even a good measure of it.

[Dead]

My pets were brutally murdered the night before and I took the test after having 15 drinks.

My score would have been higher. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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The SAT is not a measure of intelligence.

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Mensa recognizes it as a measure of intelligence. I think it's one of the best ones we have. Testing intelligence is really hard.

-Jman28

edit: also, if I got an 850 and saw this thread title, I wouldn't open it.

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Yeah I heard about that from one of my friends today. He said it was like 1300+. If that's true, that's kind of easy because I got that and only have like a 125 IQ. 160 IQ is mensa I think.

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Nooo. It's not 160. I'm not positive, but I think it's closer to 130 or 140.

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i believe it's all about percentile. top 2%. that's all it takes. so if everyone just got way dumber, which seems like is happening, then it will be easier to get in.

[NoTalent]

Math: 770
Verbal: 530 /images/graemlins/blush.gif

I still hate all those damn questions like:

Fish: Water
some word you never have heard:
and 4 choices of words you have never heard. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Matt Flynn]

whiskeytown you are my hero. that could be a movie script.

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Give me a frickin break. No way 35% of the people here scored 1500+ on the SATs. I know 2+2'ers are smarter than normal... but not THAT smart.

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[Eurotrash]

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some word you never have heard

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analogy, I'm assuming, is one of them. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[PhatTBoll]

When I took the SAT, I had been awake for an entire week, slashing sugar cane for 5 cents an hour by day and participating in medical experiments where I was injected with antifreeze by night.

I scored a 3000, which I was a little disappointed by (turns out I missed one of the extra extra credit questions on the back. Darn antifreeze!). I was accepted to many top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and the Dagestan Pedagogical Institute. Additionally, I was offered a position as a God on Mount Olympus.

All that was a little too intimidating though, so I enrolled part time at a local vocational college. After all, those carburetors won't fix themselves.

[Dead]

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When I took the SAT, I had been awake for an entire week, slashing sugar cane for 5 cents an hour by day and participating in medical experiments where I was injected with antifreeze by night.

I scored a 3000, which I was a little disappointed by (turns out I missed one of the extra extra credit questions on the back. Darn antifreeze!). I was accepted to many top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge, and the Dagestan Pedagogical Institute. Additionally, I was offered a position as a God on Mount Olympus.

All that was a little too intimidating though, so I enrolled part time at a local vocational college. After all, those carburetors won't fix themselves.

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POTD

[Shajen]

never took the SATs or ACTs.


Took the ASVAB. top 1%, but it wasn't exactly rocket science.

Did this instead:

http://www.usmcstore.com/images/Posters/join%20the%20marines.gif

Some might challenge the wisdom of me doing that, but hey, I turned out ok. Minus the trench foot and crotch rot.

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[tolbiny]

"My pets were brutally murdered the night before and I took the test"

Yeah sorry about that- i was a little paranoid about leaving witnesses to my beastiality.

The goldfish was just for fun though.

[jakethebake]

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Took the ASVAB. top 1%, but it wasn't exactly rocket science.

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What was your MOS, shajen?

[Dead]

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"My pets were brutally murdered the night before and I took the test"

Yeah sorry about that- i was a little paranoid about leaving witnesses to my beastiality.

The goldfish was just for fun though.

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It was a catfish you insensitive [censored].

[SackUp]

SAT scores do tell you something, but the only thing they are really worth is helping you get into school. The better question is what did you do with your SAT score.

I had several friends in high school who did really well in school and tore up the SAT but then went to a local school b/c it was cheaper and their parents didn't want them to leave home. I'm sure they all did really well there, but they essentially were going to the same school that people with much lower scores in all categories got in to. Again the top scores may have been at the top at the local school, but you never know, they could have been top at a much better school. They sold themselves short in my book and wasted a valuable opportunity.

[tolbiny]

"I think it's one of the best ones we have."

The Sats are one of the worst sanctioned measures of intelligence out there- i hope the new ones have fixed some of the problems. Your first clue should be when you show up to the review sessions and the first thing they teach you is how to "take the test"- ie simple tricks that will improve your score witch don't depend on your actual knowledge or problem solving capability. Your second clue should be when you realize the test is multiple choice. Most of the SATs comes down to memorization which is not intelligence, they had very little in the way of problem solving, and god help you if you grew up using a slightly different dialect than what the framers of the test use. Its not even a good test of knowledge- nothing on natural or social sciences- just math, and verbal.

[antidan444]

1240 as a high school junior in 1997.

600 verbal, 640 math.

I knew long ago I wasn't one of the smartest people on this forum.

[Shajen]

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Took the ASVAB. top 1%, but it wasn't exactly rocket science.

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What was your MOS, shajen?

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4000 field intially (Small systems repair specialist or some such [censored].) Server/pc work.

I actually got out with 3 specialties:

4066, 4034, and 2501 (I think) radio operator.

That one sucked. They combined network and comms.

We called it crime company.

[lu_hawk]

8"

[ethan]

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nice.

(And fwiw, I got a 1600. I maintain that any two scores within 100 or so of each other are equivalent, and that the test is stupid. It also didn't get me any less rejected from MIT.)

[Shajen]

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[James282]

1510 - 750 math 760 Verbal. Only took em once but wish I took them twice!
-James

[Asufiji2004]

I took the ASVAB also. It got me out of 2 classes to take, and 1 to receive the results. I scored 99th percentile, I received calls from recruiters for the next 2 years, they are relentless. However this test is no barometer for SAT's, I scored 1100. I can't believe 7 people have scored a perfect 1600. This thread is funny.

[jakethebake]

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I can't believe 7 people have scored a perfect 1600. This thread is funny.

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I belive it. There were 2 kids I know of in my graduating class that scored 1600.

[pshreck]

70% of us claiming they got atleast 1300.

Claims like this are dissapointing, and make it hard to believe posts in general on this board, since there is no way that number is accurate.

Flame me all you want, but I simply don't believe those numbers, as compared to national averages.

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70% of us claiming they got atleast 1300.

Claims like this are dissapointing, and make it hard to believe posts in general on this board, since there is no way that number is accurate.

Flame me all you want, but I simply don't believe those numbers, as compared to national averages.

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[xorbie]

Mine had 4. The key to doing well is just getting a good test and being well prepared.

[pshreck]

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Percentile of high school seniors scoring 750 or above = 99, or less than 1 in 100.

Percentage on this board claiming they scored 750 or above = 44, almost 1 in 2.

Sorry, not buying it, not even with the self selected sample.

[jakethebake]

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Percentile of high school seniors scoring 750 or above = 99, or less than 1 in 100.

Percentage on this board claiming they scored 750 or above = 44, almost 1 in 2.

Sorry, not buying it, not even with the self selected sample.

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Yea. It's pretty crazy to think that people that are drawn to poker would be good at math.

[pshreck]

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Percentile of high school seniors scoring 750 or above = 99, or less than 1 in 100.

Percentage on this board claiming they scored 750 or above = 44, almost 1 in 2.

Sorry, not buying it, not even with the self selected sample.

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Yea. It's pretty crazy to think that people that are drawn to poker would be good at math.

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Yea, even crazier to think that people that are drawn to poker are good at lying.

[ilya]

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Percentile of high school seniors scoring 750 or above = 99, or less than 1 in 100.

Percentage on this board claiming they scored 750 or above = 44, almost 1 in 2.

Sorry, not buying it, not even with the self selected sample.

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I believe it.

First the sample is limited to people who have access to the internet. Many still don't, and I'm guessing average SAT scores are higher among those who do, because yada yada yada ...

Then the sample is limited to people who've taken up poker in their spare time. So they're probably not total airheads.

Then it's limited to the small subset of poker players who post on 2+2. Perhaps smarter or at least more studious than the average poker player.

Finally, poker players aren't known for their modesty. So the people in your sample are more likely to brag about their strengths and less likely to parade their weaknesses.

I'd have been surprised if the results were anything other than what they are.

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Percentile of high school seniors scoring 750 or above = 99, or less than 1 in 100.

Percentage on this board claiming they scored 750 or above = 44, almost 1 in 2.

Sorry, not buying it, not even with the self selected sample.

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Yea. It's pretty crazy to think that people that are drawn to poker would be good at math.

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Yea, even crazier to think that people that are drawn to poker are good at lying.

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hahaha

I personally only scored 670M/650V, but went to engineering school anyway, and I'm fairly sure I was in the bottom quartile or maybe even the bottom decile. There are, ostensibly, a lot of math types here, so I guess I'm just not that surprised that the distribution on the forums is highly skewed towards the high end on the math scores.

Whatever...

[pshreck]

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So the people in your sample are more likely to brag about their strengths and less likely to parade their weaknesses.


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This is one thing I will definetly agree with.

Im sure a ton of you out there who did weaker are simply not responding to the poll, of course inflating the numbers.

I still dont believe the numbers though. I think they would be accurate for Students at Cal Tech and MIT, and thats about it. Not OOT on 2+2. Just my opinion.

[pshreck]

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I personally only scored 670M/650V, but went to engineering school anyway, and I'm fairly sure I was in the bottom quartile or maybe even the bottom decile.

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At just about any school in America, there is no way you were in the bottom quartile or decile. The schools that you would have been, wouldnt have accepted you with those scores anyways.

[jakethebake]

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Yea, even crazier to think that people that are drawn to poker are good at lying.

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ni han /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I personally only scored 670M/650V, but went to engineering school anyway, and I'm fairly sure I was in the bottom quartile or maybe even the bottom decile.

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At just about any school in America, there is no way you were in the bottom quartile or decile. The schools that you would have been, wouldnt have accepted you with those scores anyways.

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I dunno...UC-Berkeley '89. There were some smart muthuhs there (of which I wasn't one /images/graemlins/frown.gif )

[jakethebake]

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I personally only scored 670M/650V, but went to engineering school anyway, and I'm fairly sure I was in the bottom quartile or maybe even the bottom decile.

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At just about any school in America, there is no way you were in the bottom quartile or decile. The schools that you would have been, wouldnt have accepted you with those scores anyways.

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No. Not even at MIT.

[ilya]

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So the people in your sample are more likely to brag about their strengths and less likely to parade their weaknesses.


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This is one thing I will definetly agree with.

Im sure a ton of you out there who did weaker are simply not responding to the poll, of course inflating the numbers.

I still dont believe the numbers though. I think they would be accurate for Students at Cal Tech and MIT, and thats about it. Not OOT on 2+2. Just my opinion.

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Meh, there are a bunch of colleges whose students have 1300+ median SATs. Not that many but I'm guessing about 15-20?

I think you're overestimating the amount of intelligence necessary to score 1300+.

[LAGmaniac]

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I got a 1310 last fall on my first try. 710 on math and 600 for verbal.

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Weird, I got that exact same score.

[edtost]

800m, 760v junior year
1350 in 8th grade
1170 in 7th

the SAT I is really not a difficult exam. for instance, as hs exams go, the amc/aime/usamo/imo sequence is a much better test of mathematical ability than the math portion of the sat 1 or the sat2 in math.

[CallMeIshmael]

M: 780
V: 750

Harvard: no
Princeton: no
Yale: no
MIT: no
Rest, of IVY: yes.

[7ontheline]

These are all pre-essay test.
6th grade 1190 (640 M, 550 V)
9th grade 1440 (800 M, 640 V)
11th grade 1560 (800 M, 760 V)
Bonus nerd pts - perfect 240 on PSAT.

I ruled standardized tests, which was the only thing that got me through college into med school since I was so lazy.

[dtbog]

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160 IQ is mensa I think.

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I'm pretty sure it's not even 140.

-dB

[7ontheline]

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70% of us claiming they got atleast 1300.

Claims like this are dissapointing, and make it hard to believe posts in general on this board, since there is no way that number is accurate.

Flame me all you want, but I simply don't believe those numbers, as compared to national averages.

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Why lie about your SAT score? I think the people who scored 800 aren't posting. Only nerds like me care anyway.

[zaxx19]

1510....800 verbal 710 math...

Probably should have studied my dad begged me to the night before....Oh well.

35 on the ACT ...

171 on the LSAT..

I think the Lsat score is the most impressive that crap is actually difficult sometimes.

[mgsimpleton]

i done pretty good and stuff in high skewl and wutever but no one wanted my sorry ass.

no for real i got like top 99% everything, valedictorian, national merit scholar, 4 varsity athlete, yadda yadda, and everywhere (yale, harvard, pricneton, stanford, brown) but mit, where my mom and brther went, accepted me. and mit was terrible, i left that [censored] after a year. according to tbach's calculations i must have been a real douche on the tours/interviews (makes sense, i can def. be arrogant at times)

but now i'm fnie and dandy i transferred schools, am happy, still going to law school somehow if i ever graduate and playing poker all thefrikkin time. so who cares what those schools thought of me! (ha like i held a grudge, i wound up transferring to one of em)

p.s. my lsat score kicked butt. hopefully it makes up for all the classes i will fail this semester from too many trips to foxwoods.

[IggyWH]

SAT's, along with this poll, are culturally biased.

[pshreck]

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no for real i got like top 99% everything

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You were in the top 99%? Impressive. That beats just about... most retarded people. Nice work.

[tolbiny]

What's with all these people who took the sat's in 6ht or 9th grade and [censored]?

[Voltron87]

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1510....800 verbal 710 math...

Probably should have studied my dad begged me to the night before....Oh well.

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awwwww... you big boy.... you king kong....

[pshreck]

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What's with all these people who took the sat's in 6ht or 9th grade and [censored]?

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Its administered to smart kids and kids whose parents think they are smart.

You hear about them when the kids break 1100 in general, if they dont then its never spoken of... again. Thats why you dont hear about it much.

[TeeJayORTj]

Yeah I took it in 6th grade and I dont think I did that good(Around Mid 900's I think)...I dont remeber what I got exactly and couldn't find the results a couple years ago when I looked.

The SAT's I got a 1240 with a 680 M and 560 V (damn I suck at verbal) So of course I go to college for a communications degree. Makes sense

[tolbiny]

"Its administered to smart kids and kids whose parents think they are smart."

apparently i just exposed my self as fitting into neither of these catagories.

[pshreck]

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"Its administered to smart kids and kids whose parents think they are smart."

apparently i just exposed my self as fitting into neither of these catagories.

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I should have said arrogant parents who think their kids are smart.

[ethan]

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I think the Lsat score is the most impressive that crap is actually difficult sometimes.

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Huh. I actually thought that one was really easy. It might just have been playing to my strengths, though. I didn't take the actual test (since I had no interest in going anywhere it'd get me) but I took a practice exam and found it pretty trivial.

[hunterking]

the scoring system has changed a few times to inflate the scores to make other countries think we are smarter....

[Wayfare]

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Yeah that's brutal. Friend of my bro got rejected by Princeton with all A's in all his classes. He had taken all APs or better since Junior year and got a 1600 first try and 800 on all SAT 2's. He was a tri-varsity athlete Junior and Senior year and did a lot of community service and extracuriculars. I'm not sure what to make of it besides the fact that he was probably was a retard on the tour (he is wicked arrogant).

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So am I, and I got in. His dad probably didn't get in either /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[wonderwes]

95% Mathmatics
55% Verbal

Score: 1220. Me hate ESS-AYE-TEES. /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[7ontheline]

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What's with all these people who took the sat's in 6ht or 9th grade and [censored]?

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I took it in 6th grade so I could start algebra in 7th grade and geometry in 8th. I took it in 9th grade so I could apply to my state's "gifted" school. So, yes it was nerd stuff, but with a slightly better purpose than for my parents to brag.

[beckham9]

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So the people in your sample are more likely to brag about their strengths and less likely to parade their weaknesses.


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This is one thing I will definetly agree with.

Im sure a ton of you out there who did weaker are simply not responding to the poll, of course inflating the numbers.

I still dont believe the numbers though. I think they would be accurate for Students at Cal Tech and MIT, and thats about it. Not OOT on 2+2. Just my opinion.

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i currently attend Yale university and we have like a 1460 average for our school. I got 1410 and guess i got lucky that i play a sport better than average...since my high school rank was like 60% and I have a 2.7 here. oh well just go pro like lebron

[Dr. Strangelove]

1540: 740m 800v. I can't do math in the morning.

[kagame]

i took it in 7th grade through duke TIP: 1060

through the PSAT and SAT I ended getting to be a national merit finalist and getting a free ride to KU (and offers other places)

this was great for me because i transfered schools and they [censored] up my GPA which made it hard to get other scholarships

anyway- 800v 730m

i read alot

[mgsimpleton]

you're a douchebag. just because i didn't want to post my scores is no reason to be a douchebag.