Perfect or near-perfect (99th percentile) SAT scorers - what do they end up doing?
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Anonymous
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I'm guessing lots of PhD's, STEM, Wall Street financiers, graduates of T14 law schools. And perhaps a few successful authors and creative artists here and there.
Do you know anyone who aced the SAT? What did they end up doing? |
Anonymous
| My brother is a PhD in computer vision who helps DoD make sensors for the military. He scored perfect on math and maybe a few tens off on verbal back in the 90s. |
Anonymous
| My brother. Dropped out of college when he was recruited by a tech firm as a lead programmer. Has spent his career working at various start-ups, none of which have been wildly successful. Also writes novels on the side. |
Anonymous
| Delivery driver. Super high IQ who had no desire for college. |
Anonymous
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Plenty of high scorers go on to live “mundane” professional lives and plenty of more modest scorers go on to live exemplary professional lives. Please stop starting threads like this. A 99th percentile SAT is not a guarantee of professional success.
Signed parent of DC who scored in the 99th percentile. |
Anonymous
Seriously. How many 99% scorers there were amongst our presidents? Fortune 500 CEOs? Probably very few and far between. |
Anonymous
| Me - fairly mundane professional life where I make $250k as an attorney in a financial services company at the age of 36. Could have strived for more but my highest priority is a relaxed home life, with which the politics and hours of biglaw are incompatible. My DH earns enough for both of us and I continue to work primarily to use my brain and so I don’t have time to micromanage my kids. |
Anonymous
| People think about the SAT too much. After you get accepted to a college....the end. |
Anonymous
| We tend to be underachievers. Staff, not CEOs. Nice life but not what those B students with drive and business ambition have. |
Anonymous
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I had a 1600 in 2003. I got a degree in computer science from a state school and teach middle school math.
Sibling had a 1580 in 2004. Got a degree in economics from a different state school and teaches high school social studies. |
Anonymous
99th percentile nationally normed is 1450. These kids aren't even getting into top 20 colleges. |
Anonymous
| The top SAT scorer in my high school teaches at a boarding school. |
Anonymous
I don't think any president born before 1940 would have written the SAT. So that leaves Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Biden. Of these men, I think Clinton might have done that well but I don't know his SAT scores. He is exceptionally bright. Trump of course gets litigious when asked about his SAT scores. |
Anonymous
Agreed. People who like structure and have a low tolerance for risk. |
Anonymous
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Curious, and don't mean to be snarky, but are those folks with perfect 1600 just have that analytical brain and subsequent thought process to ace the SAT?
Therefore, how are you socially ? Awkward? Social anxiety? Introverted? Work best when you're alone ? |