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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only about 8k kids a year get a 1560+ without superscoring. Pretty shocking.

There are, what, 4 million high school grads per year and just under 2 million SAT test takers?

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And yet it feels like 7,999 of their parents post on DCUM.[/quote]

And THEN they’ll say “our circle of friends and neighbors are brilliant with high IQs and it’s genetic”.

I don’t think too many people got tutoring or classes decades ago.  One and done and you moved on.

I read an article on athletes and US leaders SAT or ACT scores.   Athletes were in the average range of 900 to 1150.   There genius is physical and mental not all in books.

Bush Jr got 1206, Bill Clinton 1032, John Kerry 1190.   Families with Bush and Kerry were important.  Clinton had other talents.

Unless your kid goes to a magnet school for science, math and technology it’s doubtful too many students got over 1500.  Regular private school not so many.   
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Kids superscored back in the 80s. Maybe not quite as much as these days, but most likely of the high achievers from my HS took it at least twice.

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That’s wasn’t a superscore.  That was taking it twice.  Your first score was your first score, your second was your second.  You picked the highest to submit - didn’t get to pick and choose.[/quote]

No, you used the highest for each section to superscore.

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