What was considered a "good" SAT score back in the 80s and 90s?

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<p>By good I mean good enough that CCers won’t say “you’re SAT might hurt you, though” for the ivies.</p>

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<p>Just asked my dad who took his in '82 and went to Stanford… He <em>thinks</em> he got a 1410 with some prep. He also only ever took one AP - art! Got into Stanford engineering, brown, Yale… It was very different then.</p>

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<p>It was a whole other world back then. In the late 70s I got into MIT and Stanford with a 1380 and one AP (English).</p>

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<p>Are you asking just out of historical interest? SAT scores from the '80s aren’t really directly comparable to current SAT scores, since the SAT was “recentered” in 1995. After recentering, verbal scores tended to be about 70 points higher than they would have been before, and math scores tended to be about 20-30 points higher.</p>

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<p>^Yep. just curious</p>

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<p>[SAT</a> I Individual Score Equivalents | Research and Development](<a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence/sat-individual]SAT”>http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence/sat-individual)</p>