<p>What do you predict the average income of 2400 scorers to be? Take this year’s crop of perfect scorers, zoom 20 years into the future…how much cash are they pulling in? My estimate is: average 350,000 median 200,000</p>
<p>“My estimate is: average 350,000 median 200,000”</p>
<p>no</p>
<p>Average $175 K</p>
<p>money doesn’t buy happiness.</p>
<p>You are a sick person. Please go lie down.</p>
<p>I’m not actually worried about my own personal income, as I will always have the option of taking over my dad’s business…I’m just fascinated by all sorts of stats. Can we break down income by hair color? ;)</p>
<p>I know a few 2400 scorers personally and I do know that these people will average out to 400K/year, at least one of them becoming a multi-millionaire.</p>
<p>score high on the SAT does not guarantee you will be rich. It takes a lot of street sense and ambition to get that far. Book smarts alone doesn’t get you very far.</p>
<p>yeah, of course you’re going have the odd miserably poor, homeless 2400-scorer, but I think it’s not unreasonable to assume that both the mean and median future income of 2400-scorers to be higher than that of the average SAT taker who scores 1510</p>
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<p>of course not, but did the OP suggest otherwise? why are you bringing it up?</p>
<p>Not only are 2400 scorers smart, though, but they tend to come from wealthy families and go to great colleges. Maybe the average 2400 kid goes to a Penn/Dartmouth caliber school. grads from those schools easily go on to make mean salaries of 250k</p>
<p>are you kidding me? It totally depends on the major. If you graduate from Penn with a degree in Journalism, you won’t make much.</p>
<p>Well there’s one 2400-er on here that seems to be interested in becoming a writer. That type of job usually doesn’t rake in the dough, no matter what they got on the SAT.</p>
<p>In the Forbes list of American billionaires, did ANYONE get 2400 on the SAT? No one in the top 100, at least. Bill Gates, arguably the world richest man, himself dropped out of Harvard. He didn’t even get a degree, let alone take an S-A-T. And crush it with a 2400 - like your average Up-your-score writer does. Ha.</p>
<p>^ I heard Bill Gates made a 1590/1600 on the SAT, before it was re-centered. And he never needed to finish his Harvard degree because he already made a lot of money and founded Microsoft before he graduated.</p>
<p>Yep, he got a 1590/1600 when it was much much harder to get a perfect score, and he dropped out of Harvard because he didn’t need Harvard, not because he couldn’t handle the rigor.</p>
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<li><p>Of course none of them got a 2400. They only changed the test 3 years ago. I doubt there are many under 21’s in the Forbes 100.</p></li>
<li><p>Bill Gates isn’t the world’s richest man, and even if he was there’s no argument about it. The richest man isn’t a subjective title.</p></li>
<li><p>How did he supposedly get into Harvard without taking the SAT?</p></li>
<li><p>The guy that founded PR (who wasn’t good at taking standardized tests) is probably filthy rich now.</p></li>
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<p>Lol… you’re assuming the SAT actually measures “scholastic aptitude”… </p>
<p>I can get into a thousand different arguments about that… </p>
<p>First I thought you were asking how much the average family of the 2400 scorer makes… but to correlate standardized test scores with income is wrong in the first place… even “IF” (a big, big IF) it measured some kind of intelligence, brains don’t guarantee money. They can be stuck at a low paying research or professorship job, or they’re busy using their skills making someone else a lot of money. </p>
<p>Anyway… I predict the total collapse of the global economy and national infrastructure in twenty years so there… currency is meaningless. I’m gonna buy farm land in Montana… and wait for the energy, financial, globalism meltdown (Just kidding… actually I’m kinda pessimistically serious…)</p>
<p>$0, their elitism will kill them in their sleep. <3</p>
<p>two or three years ago, i knew two kids in my brother’s grade who scored a 2400 on the SAT.
they both came from really really poor families. (60k a year with 4 kids)</p>
<p>now, one is at WUSTL as a danforth scholar (full ride)
and the other goes to princeton (full ride)</p>