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[quote=Anonymous]My parents didn't finish high school.  It never occurred to me or them that I should prep in any way for the SAT, so I didn't.  I got an average score and ended up at a college that nobody ever heard of.  I did very well and decided to apply to law school. So I took the LSAT cold, like the SAT.  No prep courses.  No practice tests.  Nothing.  Having no mentors and no understanding about these things, I simply assumed that that's how you did it.

Despite scoring below the 70th percentile on the LSAT, I got into a law school where the average score was the 90th percentile -- presumably because of my college GPA.  I finished my 1L ranked first in the class.  The second ranked student was an Ivy League grad with a perfect LSAT score.

My kids all took expensive prep courses for the SAT, all scored hundreds of points better than I did, and all got into highly ranked colleges that when I was a kid would have never even occurred to me to apply to.

Does this really mean that my privileged progeny are all smarter than me?  [/quote]

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