<p>I don’t remember exactly what my scores were, but I’m pretty sure they were higher than both Dubya’s and Bill Clinton’s. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/slideshow/SAT-scores-of-famous-people-81475.php”>SAT scores of famous people;
<p>I think Clinton’s score must be wrong. There is no way that anyone with a 1000 ish SAT score could have been admitted to Yale Law school when he attended. </p>
<p>I wasn’t surprised by too many scores. I think few surprises were Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton. I’ve been told that sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. </p>
<p>Bill could have scored that low but done really well on his LSAT. </p>
<p>SAT tests for intelligence and critical thinking. It just surprised me that Bill wasn’t smarter.</p>
<p>^ Maybe he was stoned when he took the SAT. 
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<p>He didn’t inhale, remember?</p>
<p>James Woods… whoa.</p>
<p>Yup, I wonder statistically if it was more difficult in the 70s to score very high on the SAT than after the scores were recentered. My score was higher than Bill Clinton’s but not grossly higher. You also don’t know if his scores were lop-sided…mine were abysmal on the math side which lowers the composite. I did quite well on the LSAT after four years of college (and no math except a class called math for non-math majors and statistics).</p>
<p>You would have had to have had a LSAT 700+ to have been a viable candidate for Yale back then. Preferably closer to 800, which was extremely rare. I don’t think its possible to have scored at that 1000 level SAT and then achieved mid 90s percentile on the LSAT four years later. He did do the Rhodes Scholar thing in between though. Maybe that trumped the scores. He also knew Senator Fulbright. </p>
<p>Bill Clinton went to school in rural Arkansas, didn’t he? I was recently talking to a friend who told me that she was the first person in her HS in Missouri to TAKE the SAT. WHen she graduated from HS, she had never written a paper. I can’t recall where their math offerings stopped…quite likely Geometry or Algebra II. She went to MHC, thanks to her mother’s vision, and it was a huge shock, academically. She may be ten years older than Clinton. In the interim, BC had spent 4 years at Georgetown and time at Oxford. (I’m still surprised at that score, though.)</p>
<p>“He didn’t inhale, remember?”</p>
<p>I have a bridge to sell you. </p>
<p>“mine were abysmal on the math side which lowers the composite.”</p>
<p>Mine were nonexistent. </p>
<p>Where are they getting these numbers? Self report? Rumor mill? And since when did scores end in anything but a zero?</p>
<p>lol…I agree with Jym. Are these folks self-reporting or is CB providing? I don’t remember exactly what my scores were. They certainly weren’t impressive like kids have today ( I think I was around a 1270…I know that I didn’t break 1300…DH was around a 1330 and he got into H with that. lol)</p>
<p>Seriously, back when we all took the SAT, we did NO PREP, we took it ONE TIME, we went to football games the night before, then we’d stumble out of bed and take it cold. lol I was a cheerleader so likely I went to a party after the game. ;)</p>
<p>I do remember that I got a 29 on the ACT which back then seemed very good. Now, my kids would laugh at that.</p>
<p>It’s amazing that any of us had even decent scores. 
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<p>Dubya got better scores than I would have thought he could get. I wish someone would pinpoint his learning disability, because there’s some disconnect of his intent from his language production. </p>
<p>Anyway, nice thread, emilybee.</p>
<p>I expected better of Scarlett Johansson :-w </p>
<p>I’d rather see the grades they got. I can’t remember what my SAT or ACT scores were but I do remember my overall grades. I agree with the above who said that in our day we had no SAT prep courses. I don’t think I even read a book with sample questions. I just rolled out of bed early, went to the local community college and took the test. </p>
<p>The recentering done in 1995 (IIRC) would have brought my scores up 70 points. But even with the recentering, those odd scores wigh numbers ending in something other than 0 dont make sense. Did you check your recentered scores, M2ck? <a href=“Redirect Notice”>Redirect Notice;
<p>@jym626 My SAT score was 1473. I took it in 1970. At that time there was also a completely separate National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test (NMSQT) which had, IIRC, 5 sub scores and was more content-oriented.</p>
<p>IMHO, Dubya is willfully ignorant, not dumb. :)</p>
<p>I took it in 1970 as well. I got a 1400. Never heard anyone say they had a score that didnt end in a zero. I took it arround the time of the Kent State shooting. You too?</p>
<p>**Btw- sweet score!! My recentered would be 1470</p>