<p>I just looked up the cost. Tuition, room and board and fees for Wellesley in the 1965-66 year was a total of $2800. Financial aid was available.<a href=“http://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=catalogs”>http://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1063&context=catalogs</a> Average elementary and high school public school teacher’s salary was $6,485. I used that number to give some perspective. </p>
<p>Tuition, room and board for comparable schools (and someone said was true for Wellesley as well) in the mid 70’s was around $6,000</p>
<p>I was the one who recalled the close to $6000 IN 1970. I tried to look up the costs, but could not find it.I just recall my father saying that to emphasize the expense over a public college.</p>
<p>I don’t know what Bill Clinton’s SAT score was in math but in his book he mentions he took Calculus in high school.</p>
<p>bookworm,
THis was discussed on my alumnae facebook page not too long ago, and thats the figure that came up as well.</p>
<p>Well, I was a student at W from 71-75, and I distinctly remember something around $3300 the first year rising to $3900 the last. It is <em>possible</em> that that was the per semester cost, but I don’t think so. FYI, Wellesley was always somewhat cheaper than peer colleges because it had the largest endowment of any women’s college. </p>
<p>Does anyone know the name of the source for Bill Clinton’s reported 1032 SAT score? A few websites indicate it is the conservative Free Republic group and the score has not been documented. On a different site I saw that Hillary’s IQ score was 140 and Bill’s was 137. Not too shabby.</p>
<p>It doesn’t add up to me since Bill was a National Merit Scholar semi-finalist in his Junior year. </p>
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<p>Not sure, but I find that reported score highly dubious considering what I’ve read and heard about him.</p>
<p>I’m very skeptical of these low scores. The Straight Dope (which I find a very realistic source) says that Al Gore’s SAT score was 1355–while some of these same biased sites say it was in the 1000’s. Similarly, those sites say Al Franken’s score was 1020–which just can’t be true for an unhooked Jewish kid from Minnesota who was accepted to Harvard in 1969.</p>
<p>It could be that Clinton’s SAT is a bit lower than George W. Bush’s, which could explain why he never bothered to address the even lower number. It’s easier to just let people realize that 1032 (or 1020, as other sites say) is probably just made up.</p>
<p>The Clintons may have been distracted during the exam by all the sniper fire.</p>
<p>With regard to Al Franken, I think he did some kind of stand-up or related comedy routines in high school; I always assumed this was his hook.</p>
<p>There are also reports–from more reputable sources–that Franken got an 800 on the math portion of the SAT. I find it very difficult to believe that he got 220 on the verbal part. He graduated cum laude from Harvard.</p>
<p>Note: I don’t even believe what celebrities say they got on the test, whether high or low. I certainly don’t believe an entirely unsourced number that appears on the Internet.</p>
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<p>I find that highly doubtful considering W’s reported scores on many sites ranged in the mid 1100s to low 1200s and academic reputation he had while at Yale according to several Yale classmates. And one of those accounts is from an uncle who attended Yale when his time there overlapped with W’s for 2 years. </p>
<p>Also, Bill Clinton’s formative background in terms of SES and family pedigree is nearly the polar opposite of W’s so the competing field here wasn’t level in any sense of the word. </p>
<p>I found on another source:
I did more googling and this link also showed he was a NMSS.
<a href=“Bill Clinton - Michael Benson - Google Books”>Bill Clinton - Michael Benson - Google Books;
<p>Gosh, I only started this thread because I thought it would be fun - not turn into debate about scores. Everyone takes everything so seriously on this board. </p>
<p>emilybee, this IS fun for us.</p>
<p>Consolation,
Are you thinking just tuition or tuition, room and board?</p>
<p>emilybee,</p>
<p>See what you started. I responded because a few famous people’s scores seemed out of whack. But the more I read, the more I realized that powerful individuals see no problem with defaming rivals and will make up anything even if it isn’t true. It’s another sad lesson and beware of anything you read on the internet. It shouldn’t be that way.</p>
<p>"No, it was a great advantage in being able to PAY FOR IT. Not in gaining admission.
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<p>I don’t know how admissions worked back then. Were schools more ‘need aware’ back then? </p>
<p>This slideshow was in my local paper’s entertainment section and not supposed to be anything more than that. .
Just a fun thing which I thought would be amusing. . </p>
<p>Hunt, you need to get a life. 
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<p>It’s hard to take Hunt as seriously with the new profile pic. I keep expecting him to say, “Th’ Th’ That’s all folks!”</p>