<p>DON’T remember my SATs - DON’T remember my GPA - DON’T remember who graduated no 1 in my class.
DID go to college - DID get a degree -DID marry a wonderful guy(still married after 22 years) and have 2 great kids.
DID have a successful career pre kids
WAS able to mostly stay home with my kids
DO have a somewhat interesting job now.</p>
<p>Does anything else really matter?</p>
<p>That is a point to this thread…those SAT scores, phooey on them</p>
<p>Somehow we parents and those before us survived did well, and are happy…even with those scores</p>
<p>Someday our kids will know that too</p>
<p>And survived doing dumb things, too. This thread brings back the memory that I took the ACT in Baton Rouge, since I had gone down with a group of friends to homecoming.We stayed up all night in the dorm, and I went to the test with rollers in my hair, since the first party started the minute the test was over. How embarassing to remember that!!! The score was a 30, which was nothing short of miraculous given the circumstances. I am pretty positive that I had no notion that one could “prepare” for the ACT with a book–and I know if there were prep courses, I had never heard of them. (I hope my daughter doesn’t see this post; everything in here is the opposite of what I am telling her to do now!)</p>
<p>730-738 in 1966. (Don’t remember which was which.) GPA in the low 3’s. And yes, I was lazy (the high test score - low GPA theory was correct.) Test prep - no. Hangover - I think that was the LSAT…</p>
<p>I cant remember my SAT, but I do remember the guidance counselor calling me into his office after the results came in, asking why we had not been having college prep discussions. My parents had zero focus on college and if I brought home a report card with all “B”'s, they were happy, so that was my easily achievable goal. </p>
<p>I started high school with good intentions to take a college prep schedule, but by junior year was taking mostly easy stuff. My college career at the local junior college lasted about 2 weeks. Reading the CC board, you would think these high school/college stats would be a sure recipe for failure. 
If any students are reading this message, I can assure you this path is not a path I am recommending to my kids. If I had it do over again, I would have been far more serious about high school and college. When I graduated high school in 1972, a degree wasn’t the necessity like it is today. Many comnpanies will not even schedule you for an interview if you don’t have a college degree. A degree is not a guarantee of success, however, in the highly competitive world that exists today, not having a college degree is a very poor option.</p>
<p>kluge - welcome to the class of 1966. yemaya13 thinks we’re “old.” :p</p>
<p>How can anyone forget their SAT score (they sound low compared to today’s rescaled scores)? I prob have the biggest split, 590 verbal and 800 math. There was a little article in our paper about the 800, I still have it (I think my dad called the paper but to this day he won’t admit it). 800 m seems so common these days at least on cc.</p>
<p>GPA can’t remember but I was #2 in class of 298. The val was brilliant, left the rest of us in the dust. I guess it’s a little sick but I remember his SATs, both times. He got 708v 784m and the second time 709/792.</p>
<p>Took them in 1975–1490: 750 V, 740 M.</p>
<p>Achievement tests were math(don’t rmember level) 730, Writing 770, Literature 710.</p>
<p>Dont know GPA, but ranked 5/~1000.</p>
<p>Applied to only one selective school, Middlebury, reee-jected…</p>
<p>How can you forget your test scores, you ask?</p>
<p><a href=“Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains”>Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains;
<p>This article, posted here a few days ago, quotes research that the male brain “fades” with age. I am living proof. :)</p>
<p>It’s easy to forget your SAT scores when they were very lousy.</p>
<p>Probably someone is posting in the kid’s forum right now:
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<p>I was a 3.3 ish and barely broke 1400… 710ish and 690something? Took it once (1970). I did very well on the chem achievement test that I took the summer after 10th grade… 7something?</p>
<p>hmmmm… I may actually have my score report! I will check the files.</p>
<p>On this line of thought, I remember changing a D to a B In Bio) on my report card, I was busted of course, but I survived, my mommy forgave me</p>
<p>NJres - your post capped off my evening with a good LOL. Thanks.</p>
<p>Brain decay is not limited to the male of the species…I have few and dim memories of academics way back in HS ('66-‘70)…I think I took the ACT rather than the SAT, but won’t swear to that. No memory at all of score. But worry about getting in to a college never entered my mind…graduated third in my HS class…of about 100 or so (maybe?)…made NM Semifinalist and no one told me (and I never looked into) how to move to finalist…or maybe I did; I had a scholarship for first year at college; don’t remember where it came from or how I got it, but it did pay my entire first year…renewed for half second year…never got anything but As and a B in algebra (did get my A in geometry, tho)…didn’t figure out school wasn’t a coast til I hit law school–THAT was a shock to my system…first time in my life I wasn’t busy “hiding” academic smarts (preferred popularity to scholastic achievement…always just middlin’ popular, not quite on the fringes but never in the center of my chosen crowd…but always felt compelled to make sure no one ever knew I was smart)…law school was my first experience w/having to study to learn and not “automatically” landing in the top five regardless of effort (or mostly lack thereof)…</p>
<p>My S and his friends are a whole lot better at being self-confident, centered, goal-setting (and achieving) young humans than I was…I’m living proof that youth is wasted on the young…oh to have known then what I know now!</p>
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overanxious, this was me, too. I remember wondering why I never was a finalist. Only very recently did I learn that there’s an application, etc. Either they didn’t have those in my day and I just didn’t make the cut, or I and those around me had no clue.</p>
<p>Of course, in those days, just being semifinalist, along with the rest of my academic record, did the trick in getting into every school I applied to including Swarthmore, Wellesley, etc. I would certainly love to turn back the clock to that atmosphere for today’s kids.</p>
<p>I dunno, jmmom–I was a semifinalist too (also didn’t know about finalist process), and like I said above, very high SAT and rank. Rejected from Middlebury. Why? I think because I didn’t do much extra-curriculars–I was too busy working (father died when I was in ninth grade) and I would’ve needed a lot of financial aid. I think that working was less respected then, and FA made more of a difference than it does now. Some things have changed for th better.</p>
<p>1975: SAT I: 1280-750V, 530M
GPA: 95.1 Class rank: 4/200</p>
<p>JMMOM - the other day I referred to myself as “middle aged” and my lovely and tactful 15 year old daughter immediately replied “You’re not middle aged. You’re <strong>old</strong>” After a fair and balanced discussion of the issue I had to admit that given that few of us live to 110 she might have a point. <strong>sigh</strong>.</p>
<p>I too was a NM semi-finalist with no idea of the process involved in becoming a finalist. I blame my CC addiction on the fact that my own parents (Stanford grads - go figure) gave me no help or guidance at all in the process - to the point that I didn’t even get around to applying to college until the spring of my senior year in H.S., but managed to stumble into UC anyway. No danger of that these days…</p>
<p>As I remember, 1967 - V-682; M-746 (only took it once). I was 124th in my class, which that year sent 32 to Columbia, 19 to Harvard, 12 to Yale, umpteen to Cornell, zero to Princeton (they were still in anti-Semitic mode, soon to be augmented by anti-Asian mode, with not a single student from my h.s. getting in for over two decades.) I was the only Williams admit (out of 9 applicants, 6 of whom were better academically than I was). Williams was just coming out of their Jewish quota period - I actually was the only attendee for a 5-year period. Interesting how they “knew” - I don’t have a Jewish name, and Massachusetts law prohibited discrimination, and there was NOTHING on my application that would have indicated religion (my GC warned us). Yet, like a week after I was admitted off the waiting list, I got a mailing from the Jewish Association. (They were anti-Catholic, too, but things have changed, and the last two college prezs have been Jewish.)</p>
<p>I was a semifinalist too but I decided not to apply for finalist because it was a scholarship and I felt that I should leave the scholarship for kids who needed the money. I don’t remember if that was my idea or someone elses.</p>