# SAT & ACT- how did you score? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175 "2003-06-02T18:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/61 "2003-06-03T01:49:36Z")
ooops, I think I actually got a 164, not a 165 on the LSAT, neither one it particularly remarkable around here I am sure. **ShibbOleth** I think you are right, I seem to remember my PSAT score being a 212 or 214. ---
**Author:** ![insomnia4AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@insomnia4AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insomnia4AM)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/62 "2003-06-03T01:49:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MercyStreet \*I did far, far worse. > > **I didn’t break 1000 on the SAT.** \*\* _sob_ Thank you! Someone else!!! I took that damn test four times, and it got lower every time! The only score I will admit to is a 920. _sob_ ---
**Author:** ![insomnia4AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@insomnia4AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insomnia4AM)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/63 "2003-06-03T01:52:18Z")
Duh. ^ My stellar coding abilities. Hmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![indyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@indyz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indyz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/64 "2003-06-03T01:55:29Z")
ACT: 34, first and only time. Could have, should have, gotten at least a 35, but I forgot some easy geometry stuff. I was so excited to get the results that I called my mom at work: “Mom! I got a 34 on the ACT!” _silence_ “Oh, maybe you’ll do better next time” Turns out she thought that the ACT was graded out of 100. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/65 "2003-06-03T01:59:23Z")
Hey, my freshman year my RA admitted in a moment of drunken stupidity that he had gotten a 780 on the SAT. “Which part?” we asked. “That was my total.” he respondend. “Ooohhh” we said. This was at a top 20 school, so it just shows that you can get in to good schools even if you have a less than great SAT score. ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/66 "2003-06-03T02:05:37Z")
SAT: 1210, with an equitable 610 verbal, 600 math split. I took it _just_ before the readjustment, IIRC. GRE: 1380, again an equitable 660 verbal, 720 math split, with a 5.5/6.0 on the new written section. Then I decided not to go on for a Ph.D. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASD)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/67 "2003-06-03T02:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rhum Runner \* > \*\*ShibbOleth I think you are right, I seem to remember my PSAT score being a 212 or 214. \*\* They’re out of 160. The work on the same scale as SAT’s, but without the extra 0 on the end. So a 135 on the PSATs is roughly equivalent to a 1350. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/68 "2003-06-03T02:21:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyann22 \* > \*\*ACT: 26 first time (sophomore year), 32 second time(junior year). > > SAT: No universities in our state really asked for these scores. They all seemed to base scholarships and such on ACT scores. Thus, that is all we were instructed to take! \*\* Weird… they must have changed a lot in the past 13 years or so- back when I was applying to A&M and UT,no Texas schools I’m aware of gave a shit about ACT scores- SAT and class rank were the entire ball game. ---
**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASD)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/69 "2003-06-03T02:21:37Z")
I take that back, sort-of. There’s 3 sections on the PSAT, so it’s out of 240. But if you add the verbal and math scores and add a 0 it’s the same scale as the SATs. I’m not sure if there was always a 3rd section, or if it just isn’t paid attention to very much. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/70 "2003-06-03T02:38:27Z")
SAT 1520 ACT 31(with food poisoning no less) It was the night after my sister’s birthday party and my dad, sister-in-law, and I all came home with food poisoning. Thanks sis! But my scores were still good enough for a free ride through college. This would have been in 1998 I guess. Junior year of high school. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/71 "2003-06-03T02:38:42Z")
SAT: 1530 790 verbal, 740 math, unless my memory is playing tricks on me. I was in a magnet program, so my school produced several 1600’s every year. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/72 "2003-06-03T03:01:35Z")
Took the ACT once, got a 31. ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/73 "2003-06-03T03:05:55Z")
Dang, I feel like really stupid now…I got 26, 27, and 28 on my ACT (never got tht 30 I wanted…I think I my try agian since I got a year of college chemistry and math under my belt). I graduated with a 3.98…does that redeem my intellegence in any way? ---
**Author:** ![tastycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@tastycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tastycorn)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/74 "2003-06-03T04:40:46Z")
Took the ACT once, with serious jet lag. 32. Maybe I should have retaken it… Oh well, good enough to allow me to drop out of UT. ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/75 "2003-06-03T04:56:59Z")
710 Verbal 790 Math 29 Composite ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/76 "2003-06-03T05:02:11Z")
26 on the ACT. I had one shot to take it and I’d closed at McDonald’s the night before. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Gui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@El\_Gui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Gui)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/77 "2003-06-03T07:47:23Z")
ACT: I think it was a 32, but I do remember the “comparable” SAT score was a 1360 . . . This was in 1989. LSAT: 163 Didn’t take the SAT, even though that test was more common among the applicants to the University of California system. I didn’t do as well as I hoped in the PSAT, so I avoided the SAT, altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mr.Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Hand)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/78 "2003-06-03T07:57:56Z")
SAT: 1530 (from 1997). Act: 33 or 34, don’t remember. LSAT: 175. Penis length: 12 inches. Oops, sorry about that last one – wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/79 "2003-06-03T17:11:52Z")
SAT: 1440 (720/720), 1520 (800 Math, 720 Verbal) But I was more proud of my PSAT score, 230 (79 Writing, 77 Math, 74 Verbal). Highest in the school. 🆒 ACT: 31 (35 Math, 35 English, 29 Reading, 26 Science) [sub]Damn you, science.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175/80 "2003-06-03T17:14:04Z")
Oh yeah, these scores are all 2001-2002. And if anyone’s interested, when I took the PSAT in ninth and tenth grades I got a 200 and 212, respectively, and when I took the SAT in seventh I got an 1110. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sat-act-how-did-you-score/179175.md?page=5)