<p>cur: That half an hour of sleep probably was more than normal. Your stories consistently make me recall my youth (or lack thereof - I’m still a baby). I guess there isn’t all that much difference between TX and CA farm towns (tornadoes vs earthquakes is about it). After the SAT I had to get back to tend to my 4-H project (another lamb about to go to the highest bidder…). The next day I helped a friend clear a bell pepper field (I think it was around the time of the Ceasar Chavez strikes). Ah, wrestling. Was that what my bf had in mind before the SAT?</p>
<p>I am SOOO proud of our parents!!! The fact that you even REMEMBER the scores is a good thing!!!</p>
<p>As for prep, I suntanned (yes back in the day) with a prep book on my face, hoping for osmosis to work</p>
<p>But truthfully, all you parents want your kids to beat you.</p>
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You hit that nail squarely on the head!</p>
<p>Well, I’m glad I did want her to beat me because the little cherub walloped me by 150 points. That IS re-centered. LOL.</p>
<p>1979: The height of Disco. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 or so (14/420+)
SAT: 600/600/1200
ACT:29</p>
<p>I (well, the whole school) was clueless about the college application process. Most kids were just going on to Nicholls State, some to LSU, and a very few had broader horizons. Our Val went into the workforce. </p>
<p>Took the ACT and SAT once each, in the Fall of Senior year. The ACT was the main test. I’d say only 4 or 5 of us took the SAT – the only reason I took I was considering some schools in the East. No prep for either. The SAT was (like in Curmudgeon’s case) the day after a football game. I played in the game and then (please no guffawing) went out to the local disco. Got home about 1, then in the AM had to drive all the way over to New Orleans, the nearest SAT test center. Looking back, making a 1200 was a miracle. </p>
<p>And in another sign of how things have changed, these numbers got me in to Cornell (didn’t attend). Even as a moderately-recruited athlete, there is no way I would get a passing glance from Cornell in this day and age.</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 1968, I think (could’ve been 1967) and I still have an old HS transcript with the scores. Maybe they scored differently back then because my scores don’t end in multiples of 10. I had a 621V and a 577M and my 3 “achievement tests” also ended in odd numbers. I don’t know my GPA but we were graded on the stanine system and I think it was around a 7.0. My class rank was only about top 20%. :(</p>
<p>I’m so embarassed at how badly I did in HS! Please don’t anyone tell my kids!</p>
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<p>The Sportatorium??? Oh yeah. Saw several various Von Erichs at the Sportatorium. For the uninitiated, Sportatorium is apparently latin for “hot, smelly, tin warehouse with a pro wrestling ring and decaying wooden bleachers”.</p>
<p>I remember my SAT scores (750V, 690M). I took them twice. I have no clue what my GPA would have been. I had mostly As, but some Bs. They didn’t weight GPA back then, at least not in my HS. I suspect my class rank would have been about 15/400. </p>
<p>The valedictorian of my HS was absolutely brilliant. She left everyone in the dust. And she was extremely musical, and she was funny, and she was humble & NICE. I googled her recently. She’s a prof, & head of her dept, at Princeton. Cool!</p>
<p>Hmmm, I guess I am the low scorer here. I got 1170. Higher on verbal. My gpa was about 3.8, no AP credits back then, in 1978. I was number 4, not that competitive a high school. My son beat my scores in 7th grade. He ended up with a 1570 and 4.7 something GPA, so I guess he takes after my way smarter brother who got a 1600.</p>
<p>I saw Jimmy Buffett the first time at the Sportatorium. I think B. W. Stevenson opened for him. That must have been about 1974-75.</p>
<p>curmudgeon: I came out of a very small school. Had I gone senior year, I would have been taking Ag and Homeeconomics (which on second thought might have been nice, all girls :))</p>
<p>Yep, my kid kicked my butt big time on the SAT and the SAT IIs. Of course, she studied :)</p>
<p>patsmom - I <em>distinctly</em> remember a 712 on the Verbal in 1965/1966; but I started thinking I must be remembering wrong because not in multiples of “10.” You have restored my faith in baby-boomer memory capability.</p>
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Pictures??? </p>
<p>copyright-2005,tsdad,LLC.</p>
<p>My mom’s SAT (1977, I think) was 750V, 750M, and her GPA was 4.0 (unless you count a B in PE).</p>
<p>SBmom, </p>
<p>YOU are absolutely brilliant!!</p>
<p>I think my kids got their brains from their father. (But I am nicer than he is. :))</p>
<p>I had a 630 math; 650 Verbal . . . 1280 total. GPA 3.89, classrank 6 of 234. </p>
<p>Why can I remember that when I can’t remember anything that I read in novels I read last summer? Oh, to have a memory again.</p>
<p>Fall 1975 - ACT - 30. GPA - ?4.0 (but that wan’t hard, my high school was pathetic, we had 1 microscope for the entire student body, I didn’t take chemistry, and they didn’t even teach physics, or any math beyond trig). I think they recentered the ACT since 1975 as well - so lderochi and I did better than it looks too.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I still remember this but here goes. 720V 530M. Yes, I said 530M. Achievement tests were 780V and 640Chem. I refused to take math. My GPA I have no idea, but in my class of 50 seniors in my “progressive” California boarding school I was the top in the class. And that included a C because I talked too much in history and an A in a French class where essentially I had my own independent study and was the only student because otherwise I was bored beyond belief. Also a class in futurism for which at one point we made a giant 7 foot teabag and sat with it in Union Square taking notes on the comments…</p>
<p>But I had great ECs and my English teacher was a Princeton graduate with a classmate in the admissions office and the rest is history. Life was very different then. </p>
<p>Can we discuss the drugs we took too? JK…all you kids lurking…</p>
<p>merci momofthree</p>
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cur: ROFLOL - You know how the images you create when reading a book are never met with the movie version? That sentence is all you’re getting.</p>