# In honor of "The Perfect Score": list your SAT scores! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028 "2004-02-01T11:43:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/41 "2004-02-02T02:58:14Z")
What do you mean? (Who else knew there was a 10-char min. message length?) ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/42 "2004-02-02T03:03:34Z")
Woops…meant to quote **Priam** in my previous post… ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/43 "2004-02-02T03:54:34Z")
31 on the ACT: 34- English 23- Math 33- Reading 32- Science 195 on the PSAT 66- Verbal 56- Math 73- Writing Skills I hates me some math and it shows… ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/44 "2004-02-02T04:00:03Z")
> [@Call me Frank](#): > > What do you mean? The PSAT’s full acronym is, I think, PSAT-NMSQT. Thus pronounced PEE-SAT NIM-SQUAT by my high school guidance counselor, causing much merriment amongst my fellow juvenile classmates. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/45 "2004-02-02T04:04:39Z")
> [@Priam](#): > > The PSAT’s full acronym is, I think, PSAT-NMSQT. Thus pronounced PEE-SAT NIM-SQUAT by my high school guidance counselor, causing much merriment amongst my fellow juvenile classmates. _Ahhh_, ok…I’ve never seen it’s full name, but then again, the State Schoolboard never did approve of the letter Q… ---
**Author:** ![LucysLogic101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19b73/32.png) [@LucysLogic101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucysLogic101)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/46 "2004-02-02T04:15:19Z")
SATs: 1190. that was my second attempt. i had four AP classes under my belt by senior year, advanced biology, i had been in the gifted program since the 7th grade . . . yet my friend who took only art courses (not that there’s anything wrong with that) scored a 1340 while i couldn’t even break 1200. so when do those AP classes start paying off? ☹ don’t get me wrong, i didn’t want her to score lower. i just wanted to break 1200 . . . at LEAST. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/47 "2004-02-02T04:30:10Z")
> [@Priam](#): > > I hate these threads because they make me feel stupid. Don’t feel bad. These threads tend to generate, ah, inflated scores, as it were. It’s the same with IQ threads; “Yeah, I have a 177 IQ, but it’s no big deal, doesn’t mean much, ha ha ha. 177.” ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/48 "2004-02-02T05:15:18Z")
It’s also likely that the people who respond are going to be people who did very well on their SAT’s. No one who got a 400 is going to post here to brag about it, lol. So this isn’t exactly a scientific way of determining average doper SAT scores. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/49 "2004-02-02T05:40:36Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Math: 420 The _real_ perfect score. (Sorry, I had to say it. Hopefully, most of you who are teens, stoners or both will ‘get it’.) I took the SAT in my junior year and got a 1280. I thought I was hot stuff… And then I took it again this year and got a 1390. :eek: 😕🆒 I don’t get it either, but I’m not complaining. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/50 "2004-02-02T05:58:12Z")
780 verbal, 700 math (for all the good it’s ever done me!) ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/51 "2004-02-02T06:57:13Z")
1520 SAT- 800 V 720 M 31 on ACT though my science was lower, like a 29 and my verbal was 36. Can’t remember SAT II’s or PCAT PCAT was good enough to get me a National Merit scholarship. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/52 "2004-02-02T09:11:51Z")
I stayed up the whole night before the SAT watching softcore porn on Showtime, and I still got a 1600. From my time in college, it turns out that it was a pretty accurate indicator of my test-taking abilities. Unfortunately, it turns out that it was a poor indicator of my overall ability to succeed in college, as I got put on academic propation pretty quick for skipping classes in favor of lying in my dorm room reading. I probably wouldn’t have done that had I been paying for college myself, so getting a 1600 and a full ride may have been a bad thing in the long run. My combination of depression and indecisiveness may have caused me to fail in any case, but if I was paying I would have dropped out immediately and got help. In any case, I’ve lost the full ride. I’m working to pay for classes, and I am getting much more out of them. ---
**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/53 "2004-02-02T17:16:00Z")
Thank you all for making me feel WAY less geeky. Back in 1990, I scored a measly 600 math and 630 verbal. That’s a pretty low one on this board! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/54 "2004-02-02T18:01:38Z")
This is so pointless, I can’t believe I’m doing this… Keeping in mind that this means nothing except that I’m good at multiple choice tests, I got, as far as I can remember (and I may very well be wrong) 720 verbal/730 math on the SAT, 34 on the ACT, and 800’s on all three general parts of the GRE’s. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/55 "2004-02-02T20:29:42Z")
SAT: 590 Verbal (I showed up ten minutes late; otherwise this might have been a little higher); 690 Math ACT: 28 Aggregate; I don’t remember the individual scores. IIRC, my ACT score was in the 89th percentile at the time (1978). Among posters to this thread, I don’t think I’m in the top two-thirds. If only all there was to life was taking tests… > [@](#): > > This movie looks like crap, and I also don’t see the appeal. We’re supposed to root for kids who cheat to get an advantage over the _suckers_ who do it the hard way and actually WORK for good scores? From what I hear, the filmakers were supposedly trying to make a point about the exaggerated emphasis put on standardized tests. However, from what I’ve seen of the advertising, I suspect that this point is made poorly, and the movie probably _is_ crap. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/56 "2004-02-03T01:30:21Z")
33 Composite on the ACT. Verbal-36 Reading-36 Science-36 Math- let’s not discuss it, OK? ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/57 "2004-02-03T01:53:16Z")
ACT: 34/36, which was (I think) 99th percentile LSAT: 168/180, 97th percentile Didn’t take the SAT. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/58 "2004-02-03T03:12:53Z")
Never took the SAT, but I got a 30 cum. on the ACT. If I recall correctly it broke down as 27 English 28 Reading 32 Math 33 Science. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/59 "2004-02-03T04:32:46Z")
1400 even: 770 verbal/630 math. Both were higher than I expected, especially math (I was hoping to break 1300, and was scoring in the high 1200s on practice tests). Didn’t take the ACT because I didn’t apply to any schools outside the East. I remember getting 730 on the writing subject test (the essay one) and 540 on the foreign language one but can’t remember the othe subject I took. Of course, this all made up for my mediocre 3.4 GPA in high school, but that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![Astra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@Astra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astra)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/60 "2004-02-03T05:14:22Z")
I took the ACT four times, getting composites of 30, 31, 32, and finally, 33. My high scores in each area are below. 36 English 36 Reading 35 Math 30 Science I took the SAT twice, high score was a 1480, 800 verbal, 680 math. My other score was a 1470, I think - scored a little lower on the verbal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028.md?page=4)