Perfect or near-perfect (99th percentile) SAT scorers - what do they end up doing?

[Anonymous]

I got a 1600 in the late 90s. I went to HYP & YLS. I am an SES Fed attorney with 3 kids. I am pretty normal in most respects, but extremely efficient, so I am a high performer at work while working much less hard than others/having plenty of time for life tasks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

99 percentile in the last 3 years is 1530...my kid a CS major at UMD with his 1560.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

99 percentile in the last 3 years is 1530...my kid a CS major at UMD with his 1560.

CS majors no longer in demand like 3 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a 1600 in the late 90s. I went to HYP & YLS. I am an SES Fed attorney with 3 kids. I am pretty normal in most respects, but extremely efficient, so I am a high performer at work while working much less hard than others/having plenty of time for life tasks.

Ha very similar here. Not that ambitious at this stage and focused on my kids.

I don't think it's that predictive of careers because that's much more about people's preferences, ambitions, life circumstances, EQ, sheer luck, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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 ?

No?

Not sure why being smart and quick thinking on your feet would cause social anxiety or introversion?

EQ is a range but your assumptions are odd

[Anonymous]

Are you referring to a perfect score on the SAT old school or modern-day test-prep?

[Anonymous]

99th percentile testers are in abundance at ivy/+ and also exist im smaller amounts everywhere. They do whatever they want. Spme MD some phD some JD some start their own companies some teach some choose basic regular jobs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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 ?

No?

Not sure why being smart and quick thinking on your feet would cause social anxiety or introversion?

EQ is a range but your assumptions are odd

Agree PP. i know many mamy 99 and 99.9 % ile people from my family including my self and spouse, my grown kids, friends from grad and undergrad. Uber smart does not mean introverted or less social, i know both kids of geniuses. 99%ile itself is not rare in fact it is a very large group of graduating high school kids, more than can fit in all the T20s. 99.9 is more rare but again also know more than a handful of those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

99 percentile in the last 3 years is 1530...my kid a CS major at UMD with his 1560.

CS majors no longer in demand like 3 years ago.

Ok...

[Anonymous]

I knew 2 in my high school in the late 90s who got perfect SAT scores.

One was valedictorian and went on to get multiple degrees. Became a professor.

The other was a terrific test taker (I think also got a perfect psat). Did not have perfect grades like the first one. Extrovert. Is in tech startup sales now.

[Anonymous]

perfect scores went to harvard law with me. and becane governors and Presidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:perfect scores went to harvard law with me. and becane governors and Presidents.

I guarantee you no President got perfect scores.

[Anonymous]

I got at 1360 back in the 90s. I now make $2m a year overseeing people that probably scored my higher than me.

There's a lot more to life than getting a perfect score on the SAT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Seriously. How many 99% scorers there were amongst our presidents? Fortune 500 CEOs?

Probably very few and far between.

99th percentile nationally normed is 1450. These kids aren't even getting into top 20 colleges.

No it isn’t

[Anonymous]

I just looked online and it looks like one of the 1600 kids In my school in the 90s became a doctor for underserved communities. Good for them.