What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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Anonymous
Our public HS (wealthy part of NE) had a one-day prep session where you learned about what test looked like. Maybe did a few practice questions of each time. Learned how to fill in the oval properly. So we “prepped” for the test format not the content. |
Anonymous
| It wasn’t a full day - just a Saturday morning. |
Anonymous
YES!!! 1985- No "prepping" for SAT unless you count the plan to meet at the diner after the test and eat breakfast and lunch in one sitting. I don't remember my score (around 1300 maybe?) but I do remember EXACTLY what I ordered that day! (Eggs Benedict, short stack of pancakes, BLT and fries with gravy, and the 4 of us split a Napoleon pastry for dessert. I weighed 98 pounds back then! those were the days. 3.5 student from good public High School in Westchester County NY Skidmore-accepted Penn State- accepted Hobart William Smith-accepted Georgetown-never heard back-might have forgotten to send the application fee-or some part of application |
Anonymous
| Early 90s grad -- 1460 on the SATs, I think I had a prep book but no one I knew did test prep classes or took the test more than once. 3.8ish GPA with some APs, I don't think weighting existed. Prob top 5 percent of class at a test-in public. Was in some clubs but nothing special on the extracurricular front. Waitlisted at Brown, in at University of Chicago (national merit $), University of Michigan (partial scholarship), Oberlin, George Washington (full scholarship). No outright rejections. I thought of University of Michigan as my safety, applying from out of state. So different now! |
Anonymous
1984 3.0 (barely top 50%) 1410/33 ACT Virginia Tech - Rejected Penn State - Rejected WVU - Accepted and attended. Played a sport and was also in orchestra. My sister with significantly lower SATs (1200s) but much higher grades got into schools like Duke. I sometimes wish I’d actually attended HS regularly and prepared for the SAT and ACT. Got my academic life together and went to an excellent grad school at least. |
Anonymous
I took the SAT while hungover. 
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Anonymous
| The other important point from this thread is that the SAT has been re-normed at least twice. When I took it in the mid 80s the average score was around 800. A 1400 from the 80s would be similar to a high 1550+ now. |
Anonymous
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Applied for Fall of 1996.
Honors & AP classes, passed 3 AP exams Good GPA (3.8ish? I graduated 13th in class) Decent but not amazing SAT scores (1200ish? I didn't study for them and only took once) Extracurriculars: Marching Band (section leader / 1st chair), Varsity Cheerleading, a couple clubs My mom said I could apply to and go to any state U except VCU (which is funny because I ended up teaching at VCU much later and now live in RVA). I applied to JMU and Mary Wash. I thought about applying to UVa, but historically, only one kid from each of our high school graduating classes got in, and it was always the valedictorian. Plus applications were expensive and time-consuming at the time. I got into JMU but not Mary Wash. A classmate with very similar stats got into Mary Wash but not JMU. |
Anonymous
Any data more than 5 or 6 years old is irrelevant. Things have changed so much. I got in to the U. Washington with a 2.6 |
Anonymous
ALL the data more than 5 or 6 years old is relevant to the topic of this thread, which is precisely about OLD DATA. Geez. |
Anonymous
Which is what this thread is about PP 
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Anonymous
| My SAT prep was a half-day summer class with my best friend at UMBC. I remember the teacher telling us that People magazine had great SAT vocab words. We went through the magazines she brought in and picked out vocab that we didn't know and tried to figure it out from the context. It made it more fun. Also, we did analogies which I enjoyed. I guess they got rid of the analogies section. |
Anonymous
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1988
4.05 SAT 1470 Totally clueless about college admissions process-no parent or counselor help. Applied to some of the schools my friends were applying to. Brown, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, Berkeley. Accepted. Harvard- WL. |
Anonymous
O.K. - that was me who said that, I was just pointing out (inarticulately) how much things have changed. So what difference does it make what stats you got in with under such different criteria as was in effect then. YThose days are long gone and we all know it. Seriously, what difference does it make? |
Anonymous
Don’t be such a party pooper |