<p>Okay my gpa was a 3.5 and I had a 670 v and 720 math, back in the day, 1979, oh yeah,</p>
<p>And my IQ, well, i don’t want to brag, so…</p>
<p>Come one, lets all get competitive</p>
<p>Okay, well i also failed my driving test the first time</p>
<p>and I need reading glasses now</p>
<p>1964: 3.6, 1210. Took SAT once fall of senior year, prep…egads, didn’t exist, no psat, studied and loved school.</p>
<p>Funny thing, I was such a loser in math classes and my SAT math score was 630! Higher than some A students at the time. I remember they put our scores written on slips of paper on our desks and kids grabbed each others to see what they got. When they saw my math score, they flipped out. I mean I had to take geometry twice! And I remember my algebra teacher saying I was the only one in class who was studying and I was failing…errrr. My SAT 580 reading/writing did not go along with what I loved to do…read and write.</p>
<p>I had a similar lopsided GRE…math score high. Maybe I should have been a math teacher! Just didn’t know it.</p>
<p>when ever I took those interest inventories they always said something like I should be a college or high school science professor ( or a pilot?)
hmm
never did take SATs</p>
<p>Just to show how much attitudes have changed, I took the SAT once. The Saturday morning after Homecoming Friday night. I arrived at the testing center without a hangover. The hangover started about halfway through the test. 1260. GPA? Yeah, right. I really don’t think that it was capable of being calculated.</p>
<p>As a total aside, but since I was thinking about high school I will tell you that in the three months I was allowed to attend my senior year classes (after minor problems in the chemistry lab were somehow traced back to me), my school allowed me to spend a great deal of time outside the traditional classroom in a unique and forward thinking, progressive, almost John Dewey-esque program equivalent to setting me adrift on an ice-floe.
[quote=John Dewey]
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.<a href=“Actually,%20I%20would%20doubt%20if%20Mr.%20Dewey%20ever%20posted%20that,%20but%20he%20did%20say%20it.”>/quote</a></p>
<p>SAT - 1220, about evenly split (math a bit higher, I think – and remember, this was before re-centering, when average was 800, not 1000). Took SAT once, on my birthday, in the morning. In the afternoon I went to my Grandfather’s funeral. No clue as to GPA - had As, Bs, even a C, and graduated 7th of 760. Applied to one college, which I had never visited. Never occurred to me to “study” for SAT. Ah, times have changed…</p>
<p>SAT around 1410 (1965?1966? - can’t remember if took in fall or spring). GPA - we didn’t calculate, but “all A’s.” Graduated #1 in small girl’s school.</p>
<p>So how come I ain’t rich and famous?</p>
<p>P.S. SAT prep? To us, I believe that meant “have a good breakfast and bring two sharpened pencils.” ;)</p>
<p>1972 SATs: 740M, 640V. My daughter tied me on the math, but killed me on the verbal. She hasn’t gotten June scores yet, so I’m hoping she beats her dad in math also.</p>
<p>GPA: HS-I think it was 92.5/100 or thereabouts
College GPA was 3.96/4.00, that I do remember!</p>
<p>SAT was 1330, split 640/690, can’t remember which section was which. High school grades - can’t remember exactly, but probably 2/3 As, 1/3 Bs. Class rank was somewhere around 110/640. Oh, and the grading scale was A=93-100, B=85-92. I seem to recall getting a lot of 90-92 Bs.</p>
<p>The only ones I remember were the SAT2: 790 on the Level 2 Math (missed one problem) and 800 on the chemistry. We had an amazing math teacher in 10th grade (which is when I took the math); every day we came in to 18 problems on the chalk boards, and spent 9 minutes (30 seconds each) solving them while she watched from the center of the room. Solve one, whistle blows, step to next one on the right, solve it, whistle blows. If you couldn’t do it before the whistle blew, you wrote down the number and spoke to her later. She’d been teaching for 40 years when I had her, and there was nothing she didn’t know about teaching math. (She also made the most beautiful clothes, with gorgeous tailoring; she wore suits to teach.)</p>
<p>The lowest score in the class on the SAT2 was 760.</p>
<p>I have no clue what my GPA was, but I consistently got As in math and science, Bs in English and history, and Cs in French. </p>
<p>BTW: don’t forget that in 1994, they re-centered the SAT 1, so that scores before 1994 are approximately 100 points lower than those after. So it you got two 700s on the SAT1 in 1970, you’d get two 750s on the current version.</p>
<p>1972 SAT 1360, don’t remember the split. Stronger in math.<br>
Skipped senior year of HS and placed out of freshman year of college. Registered as a junior on my 18th birthday. Went down hill from there for a couple of years. Drinking age dropped to 18 in Texas about that time. 2.2 over the first 60+ hours, 3.99 over the last 68 (last 68 were taken in one calendar year plus one summer session).</p>
<p>1974: V610, M570, average was 91/100 and rank was 25/650. Believe it or not, that got me into Duke and Cornell (2nd semester frosh) and rejected from Wesleyan, Colgate, William and Mary. Only took the SAT once because that’s all we could afford.</p>
<p>Oh, and I also failed my driving test the first time. It’s not good when the very first thing you do is stall the car as you try to start it.</p>
<p>We all took the ACT. I don’t know anyone from my high school that took the SAT. I won’t tell my score, but when my son was 12 he beat my overall score and my math and science scores. GPA was about 3.0. I didn’t really start studying or knowing how to study until graduate school at the age of 30.</p>
<p>bandit_Tx, that all sounds vaguely familiar. I was also an 18 year old junior in college, took hideous loads with permission of the dean, including summers. Can you remember why anybody would be in such an all fired hurry to get out of undergrad? I can’t. It certainly wasn’t looking forward to law school. It became something of a game, I guess.</p>
<p>Don’t recall my GPA, but I was in the top 10-15% I believe. I put a lot more of my energy into my extracurriculars than in my academics. SATs were 750 math, 650 verbal. Took the SAT’s during the time of all the Kent State riots in 1970.</p>
<p>Fredo, I failed my driving test first time out as well. Right on my 16th birthday. I couldn’t parallel park.</p>
<p>
Same story here. Fall 1971. BF asked me to “go steady” and gave me his class ring. Got home late, late, late and had to get up early to drive 1.5 hours from my hic farm town to the nearest bigger town where the test was administered. No prep (who did that?), and I only had one pencil. I have no idea how I managed an 1150 (650 math) because all I remember is fiddling the entire time with bf’s coveted class ring hanging from a chain around my neck! I don’t recall my gpa, but did graduate sixth in my class of 160 and was the only girl who took 4 years of math. I was the only one of my class to go to a UC straight from hs.</p>
<p>Maize&Blue, you had a pencil??? I had to scratch my answer sheet with a stick that I rubbed in the dirt on the floor to get the circles dark enough. And I had to get up half an hour before I went to bed. Some people sure had it easy. (Just kidding. Homage to M. Python.)</p>
<p>Why did they schedule Homecoming if they knew the SAT was the next morning? Duhhh. Oh, that’s right. The next Saturday was World Championship Wrestling at the Sportatorium. The Assassin vs. Abdullah the Butcher.</p>
<p>So for those of you lamenting how your children scored higher than you did on the SATs, all you need to do is check out the College Board’s [re-centering</a> tables](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>www.collegeboard.com/research/pdf/rs05_3962.pdf). Look up your pre-recentering scores and see what they would be equivalent to now: it’s quite refreshing. 
My 1971 SATs (originally 680 V, 740 M) look much closer to my older S’s after that peek (but in truth, he still beat me). </p>
<p>Can’t remember my GPA, but I graduated 6 / 650 (gotta love that Baby Boom). Of course, I <em>did</em> take some 1970s-era courses like “Humanities” and “Weaving”, so I’m not sure I’d WANT to remember my GPA, LOL! And we didn’t have SAT IIs then, we had “Achievement Tests”. I know I took some, but I don’t remember what the scoring method was at the time, much less what my scores were.</p>
<p>My kids don’t believe me when I tell them that someday they won’t care about all these score details. Or maybe it’s just the age.</p>
<p>Mootmom-
Thanks for that!! I didn’t know there was such a table. It makes me feel a little better (my Verbal would be much higher when recentered) but, even with the higher scores, my s still beats me by 100 points! :eek:</p>