<p>I took the SAT’s on the last date offered that year (Dec. maybe???) and I had mono (note to any students reading this - DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!!!). I was in a fog for the entire test. </p>
<p>And then (GASP!!!) I applied to ONE university, that I had never visited. </p>
<p>(I’ll give you a minute here to pick yourselves up off the floor). </p>
<p>And I was admitted!!!</p>
<p>My scores were very ho-hum (maybe 1200 combined?) but my GPA was probably pretty close to a 4.0</p>
<p>I have to confess. Before getting knee deep into the college search with my S I actually ordered my old reports from SAT and ACT. Why? I wanted to have some perspective to keep from driving him and me crazy. </p>
<p>I also attended 25-year HS reunion and discovered that one of the most successful classmates, if not the most successful, was the girl who got a 14 on her ACT and nearly flunked out. A 14! Granted, she married money 3 times in order to set up her real estate company, but still . . . Ain’t life strange. :)</p>
<p>When I took the SATs they had scores with numbers other than just zeros on the end. It looks so odd now.</p>
<p>Mine was 1357 [recentered would be 1410 according to that chart]. I had a 32 on the ACT, but I don’t know the subscores.</p>
<p>I didn’t know anyone who did any formal test prep back in those days [late 60s, city high school in a southern town]. They still had the idea that the tests measured some sort of “innate” ability; as prepping became more popular and proved you could raise your scores, the “innate ability” concept fell by the wayside.</p>
<p>I was ranked 10/401. I had a B in chemistry and a B for my only semester of German [had four years of French], and maybe something else. I don’t remember. I found out the SAT score and class rank by looking at my college transcript.</p>
<p>I was a NM finalist, too, but not a scholar. Funny, when I read on CC about the application to progress from semi- to finalist, I figured it must be a new procedure. I don’t remember “applying” at all. I only remember that in the spring of my senior year, they called me and five others up in assembly and gave us little cards that named us NM finalists. Our high school had more NM finalists that year than any of the three [non-coed at that time] private prep schools in our city.</p>
<p>I graduated in Spring of 1971 with an outstanding GPA (whatever it was…high) and a lousy 1050 on the SAT. Guess I just didn’t test well. I did, however, go to Vanderbilt for undergrad and graduate school on the strength of my classes, activities and recommendations.
Go figure.</p>