Is it harder to get a 1500+ on the SAT or pass tryouts for a varsity sports team?
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Anonymous
| It’s a serious question, especially when many top students did both. So many people complain about how sports teams in the schools here are impossible to join, so what did the few who accomplished a lot in academics and athletics do differently? |
Anonymous
| I don't know which is easier, but I think some people are just better. For some school/learning comes easily, for some athletics comes easily, for others, working hard at those things is natural to them. For the rest of us, we have to push ourselves to work at the things that aren't so easy. |
Anonymous
| How much $$ did parents put into both of those outcomes? |
Anonymous
| what a clown question bro |
Anonymous
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SAT is a national standard
Varsity sport is a local standard. It depends on your school. The preparation for each is completely different, and there are many different possible sports |
Anonymous
| It was easy for me to get over 1500 on the SAT because I am weirdly good at standardized tests. I am no athlete and never tried out for varsity but that would have been much harder for me. For someone else it would be the opposite! |
Anonymous
Same. I am so uncoordinated! |
Anonymous
| This may qualify for the stupidest DCUM question ever. |
Anonymous
| They aren't correlated. |
Anonymous
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Genes.
We're not an athletic family, so there's not point in trying out for such sports, OP. But our genetic make-up means my children, even the one with severe ADHD, are able to get very high test scores. A lucky few are born with both the athletic and the intellectual potential. But you should really know this already, OP. |
Anonymous
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A 1500 SAT scores is 9uth percentile of all students who take the SAT, and higher than that of all students. I couldn't find numbers for varsity participation nationally, but I checked the nearest high school to my house and the varsity football team alone is 2% of the student body.
It has to be getting the 1500. |
Anonymous
| There are limited spots on each varsity team, and limited number of tryouts. There is no limit to the number of students who can get a 1500, and there are more opportunities to attempt. |
Anonymous
and some people are just smarter and/or more athletic. |
Anonymous
This. Depends on the school and sport. The 1500 is obviously going to be easier than making the starting 5 in boys' basketball at Paul VI. |
Anonymous
Yep, Ryan Fitzpatrick got a 1580 on the SAT more than 20 years ago (when it was much harder) and made it into the NFL. Jeremy Lin got a 1570 and ended up in the NBA. These outcomes are just not feasible for regular people. Yes, both worked extremely hard, but they started out with extraordinary talent. |