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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

I was a NMSF (roughly correlates with 99th percentile scores), and know many others, including my brother, my husband, my closest friends, and their husbands. We are all in our 40s.

me -- journalist and author who "leaned out" when I had kids and still don't work much but have spiky accomplishments (my book did pretty well and is taught in colleges now)
husband -- two degrees from T5 university and now working for a non profit making a (just) upper middle class salary but is called on as a expert from time to time, ie "thought leader"
one good friend -- serial entrepreneur who became a multi millionaire when one of her companies sold. doesn't work right now, but will dip into consulting when it's interesting to her
her husband -- also a multimillionare from a tech company sale, cofounded another one in a field that feels worth and works a lot
other good friend -- works as a lawyer in France after gettting law degrees in both the US and France. Worked in BigLaw for 5 years and then put that money into real estate in Brooklyn and doesn't have to work
another good friend -- has many degrees, including anthropology and poetry, and was a Rhodes scholar, works in a random job, exceptional at everything she does 
my brother -- graduated from college and never worked

Not sure what the common threads are. all value freedom tremendously -- freedom to think about whatever we want to, and also using money to buy freedom. Intellectually curious for it's own sake, and sometimes it connects to the real world with an outcome, sometimes it doesn't.[/quote]

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