# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![IUchem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@IUchem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IUchem)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/81 "2004-05-14T03:38:10Z")
Another thought - - While I vented a wee bit earlier on this thread. . . I think “perfect test” scores are only achieved by “perfect test takers.” That said, I have a 7 figure proposal I need to wrap up yet this evening . . . . whether I achieved a 1390 or 1170 (while “high” 14 years ago) on my SATs does not guarantee (or even begin to assure) my current and future succes. I hope everyone replying to this post is making 6 figures . . . or will be promoted soon!! Not that money is everything!!! -IUchem ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/82 "2004-05-14T03:38:21Z")
**IUchem** , did you think a thread titled “In honor of ‘The Perfect Score’: list your SAT scores!” would attract a lot of people who didn’t do well on the tests? ---
**Author:** ![IUchem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aca169/32.png) [@IUchem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IUchem)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/83 "2004-05-14T03:42:50Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > **IUchem** , did you think a thread titled “In honor of ‘The Perfect Score’: list your SAT scores!” would attract a lot of people who didn’t do well on the tests? However, I think those who are still thinking SAT/ACTs determine there self worth/earning capacity need a minor dose of “reality.” In most of my hiring decisions, I would rather hire a B-student (who had to work for their grades) than a straight A student. -IUchem PS I am glad to hear from another jaded and cynical individual! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/84 "2004-05-14T14:48:47Z")
> [@Jurph](#): > > I had low-nineties grades that I worked my ass off to earn. But a 1570 is a 98% – they assume it’s a fluke that you _didn’t_ get a perfect score. So anything except highest honors and a valedictorian sticker on your application, and a high board score actually _hurts_ you in the college application. > > Strong (but not perfect) academically, and excellent at taking standardized tests? Throw a few questions, daydream a little, and aim for a 1450. Break 1500 and you get nothing but hassle. Hmmm. I didn’t get hassled on this, and I was in the same situation, with a 1563 SAT (35 years ago) and an average of about 93. I’m sure colleges did and do look at the classes you take. My low grade was in Spanish, which I’m sure got discounted. If you get mediocre grades in easy classes, I bet it will hurt, but if you take hard classes it won’t. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/85 "2004-05-14T17:46:25Z")
SAT: 1570 (800 math / 770 verbal) ACT: 36 (I don’t have the breakdown handy at the moment) What was disappointing was that everybody told me, “With your scores, and you being valedictorian, (Harvard / Yale / MIT / whoever) will come after YOU!” but none of them ever did. Apparently they still wanted you to “apply” and all that. Can you believe the nerve of those people?! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/86 "2004-05-14T23:05:07Z")
670V + 670M = 1340 SAT 5 on AP Calculus & English, 4 on U.S. History All with a broken finger on my writing hand (the splint made the essays a bitch). Half a lifetime ago. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/87 "2004-05-14T23:17:26Z")
730 verbal + 740 math = 1470. I only took them once, but it got me into college. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/88 "2004-05-15T17:39:36Z")
1420 on the SAT model of the late 70s, I don’t know what that would translate to today. I can’t remember what my exact PSAT score was, but I was also a National Merit Scholar. That, in turn, funded a big chunk of college, and that mattered a lot more than the 1420 ever could. ---
**Author:** ![iwakura43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de0a6/32.png) [@iwakura43](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iwakura43)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/89 "2004-05-15T20:36:05Z")
Just got my SAT I scores a few days ago. SAT I (11th grade) 780 Math 800 Verbal = 1580 SAT 1 (7th grade) 720 Math 620 Verbal = 1340. Interestingly, my verbal score soared in 4 years; I remember having to learn what a ‘slope’ was for the math section, though. PSAT: 233. 80 math, 73 verbal, 80 writing. (99th %ile in all three) The discrepancy between my PSAT verbal score and my SAT I verbal score is strange. SAT IIs 770 Math Ic 760 Writing 770 Chemistry I’m taking the IIc next month. Hopefully it won’t be lower than my Ic; then I won’t be sure which math score to use for college apps. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/90 "2004-05-15T20:36:59Z")
SAT: 660 Math, 710 English in 1977. (In my defense, I was sick at the time; my PSAT was better; I don’t remember the score, but it was in the top half of a percent, the best my hick school had ever seen.) Been a failure at pretty much everything since then, due to laziness and lack of ambition. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/91 "2004-05-16T02:36:43Z")
I just got my SAT II scores for Spanish- 690. Is that good? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/92 "2004-05-16T05:20:43Z")
SAT: 1600. And that was back when kids didn’t prepare for it. We just showed up and took the test. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/93 "2004-05-16T08:14:01Z")
I was pissed at my SATs. Especially after doing so well on the SAT II subject tests and my ACTs. All of these are circa 1994/5. SATs: 1340 640 Verbal 700 Math SAT II Math IIC: 770 SAT II Writing: 730 ACT: 33 36 Reading 34 Science Reasoning 31 English 32 Math ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/94 "2004-05-16T12:16:13Z")
My mother encouraged me to take the SAT my sophomore year in high school “for practice”. I scored a 1470, figured that was good enough, and never took it again. I can’t remember my scores for each section, but my verbal was significantly higher. I might have scored higher had I retaken it once I had more math classes under my belt…but like I said, I figured a 1470 was plenty good enough. It was, too. I landed a full-tuition merit scholarship to the #1 college on my list, so I can’t imagine that I’d have been better off with a few extra SAT points. My ACT composite (junior year in high school) was 33. I got all the questions right on the reading section so that score must have been a 36. I remember math was my worst one but that all of my scores were in the 30s, so I think I had something like a 35 English, 32 science, and 30 math. ---
**Author:** ![Riqay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Riqay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riqay)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/95 "2004-05-16T14:04:41Z")
SAT (1983) Verbal: 590; Quant: 750 ACT (1983) 33 (can’t recall the breakdown) GRE (1987) Verbal: 640; Quant: 780; Analytical: 800 GRE (1992) Verbal: 770; Quant: 800; Analytical: 800 GMAT (1995) 730 GRE (2003) Verbal: 730; Quant: 800; Writing assessment: 6.0 Seems I peaked back in 1992. Didn’t realize I was such a testing junkie. I’m pretty sure the latest GRE will be my last. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/96 "2004-05-17T04:24:04Z")
SAT score: 1600 Number of colleges applied to: 5 Number of colleges accepted into: 0 ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028/97 "2004-05-17T04:50:35Z")
SAT Math: 690 SAT Verbal: 750 SAT Total: You’re all smart people, I’m sure you can figure it out 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-the-perfect-score-list-your-sat-scores/227028.md?page=4)