Anonymous
11/24/2021 08:22
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I took it in 1983 and 1984 - never prepped. Maybe the English teacher gave us a new vocabulary list but no prep. Football game Friday night, SAT in the morning.
In the late 90s, I "test prepped" by coming home immediately after the football game on Friday night to try to get a good night's sleep for the test.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 08:03
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I grew up in a mc/umc Dallas suburb, and there was no test prep culture there in the early 90s, but, I went to a competitive NE university and my east coast classmates definitely seemed to have prepped for the sat, so, by the early 90s, people did seem to be prepping, at least in some parts of the country.
Did highland park people in the early 90s prep?
Anonymous
11/24/2021 08:02
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
It was also more difficult.
Sat is easier today
Anonymous
11/24/2021 07:45
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I took it in 1983 and 1984 - never prepped. Maybe the English teacher gave us a new vocabulary list but no prep. Football game Friday night, SAT in the morning.
Lol. This is so true. I was a good student from a top suburban high school. The SAT was not something we worried about much, back in 1992.
It was viewed similar to an achievement test (what you knew is what you knew). You showed up and took it. Maybe you went out with your friends the night before, maybe you didn't.
It was no big deal.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 07:42
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I was having this conversation with the late 40's parents at my kid's soccer game. A few of those who attended private school in NW DC in the late 1980s/1990s may have prepped a bit.
None of us from elsewhere did. We showed up and took the test and we only took it once. That was the norm--even for very good students at top high schools.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 07:35
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I grew up in a mc/umc Dallas suburb, and there was no test prep culture there in the early 90s, but, I went to a competitive NE university and my east coast classmates definitely seemed to have prepped for the sat, so, by the early 90s, people did seem to be prepping, at least in some parts of the country.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 07:33
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Graduated 1986. SATs over 1500 (I forget the exact number), and our school never calculated GPA on the four point system or weighted anything. The numerical average was 99, I think. Our school made kids take a quarter-long class in junior year called “word power” that essentially taught you additional vocabulary and how to do the analogy section.
Applied - Yale. Accepted ED. Done.
Applied - Yale. Accepted ED. Done.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 07:18
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I took it in 1983 and 1984 - never prepped. Maybe the English teacher gave us a new vocabulary list but no prep. Football game Friday night, SAT in the morning.
Totally different calibration.
I don’t remember my exact stats, but an upper 600s SAT verbal score put me in the top 20% for Penn (OK, now called UPenn) students. I remember being surprised to see that on the little paper score print out. My SATs were higher than a friend who went to a Yale.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 06:41
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
I took it in 1983 and 1984 - never prepped. Maybe the English teacher gave us a new vocabulary list but no prep. Football game Friday night, SAT in the morning.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 06:39
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:1380 SATs
4.0 GPA, 1/110 class rank
2 APs (all that were offered. That and the class rank reflect that my Southern HS was really awful
If there was an EC I joined it, plus all conference in a sport
In at Duke, Davidson (full scholarship), Wake Forest (full scholarship), UNC (Morehead Scholar). No rejections.
My 1540 SAT/top 10%/10 AP DMV kid would be lucky to get into one of those schools. Forget all 4.
It’s crazy.
My daughter beat your stats two years ago and was denied by Wake Forest !! UGH
Anonymous
11/24/2021 06:35
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Prep? I took it in the 80s. No one "prepped". I can't even recall taking it more than once. We showed up on a Saturday morning, took the test, and that was that.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 02:28
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Why did you guys score so low on your SATs compared to what kids score today? Didn’t prep?
Anonymous
11/24/2021 00:33
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:1380 SATs
4.0 GPA, 1/110 class rank
2 APs (all that were offered. That and the class rank reflect that my Southern HS was really awful
If there was an EC I joined it, plus all conference in a sport
In at Duke, Davidson (full scholarship), Wake Forest (full scholarship), UNC (Morehead Scholar). No rejections.
My 1540 SAT/top 10%/10 AP DMV kid would be lucky to get into one of those schools. Forget all 4.
It’s crazy.
Sorry. Early 1990s grad.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 00:32
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
1380 SATs
4.0 GPA, 1/110 class rank
2 APs (all that were offered. That and the class rank reflect that my Southern HS was really awful
If there was an EC I joined it, plus all conference in a sport
In at Duke, Davidson (full scholarship), Wake Forest (full scholarship), UNC (Morehead Scholar). No rejections.
My 1540 SAT/top 10%/10 AP DMV kid would be lucky to get into one of those schools. Forget all 4.
It’s crazy.
4.0 GPA, 1/110 class rank
2 APs (all that were offered. That and the class rank reflect that my Southern HS was really awful
If there was an EC I joined it, plus all conference in a sport
In at Duke, Davidson (full scholarship), Wake Forest (full scholarship), UNC (Morehead Scholar). No rejections.
My 1540 SAT/top 10%/10 AP DMV kid would be lucky to get into one of those schools. Forget all 4.
It’s crazy.
Anonymous
11/24/2021 00:12
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:1984
GPA 97/100 unweighted
Ranked 2/300 from a NYC suburban high school
Class president
1300 something SAT
State rep at National leadership conference
ED acceptance to UPenn
Did they have ED in 1984? I do not remember it?
Yes. Why would I make that up? I guess technically I applied ED in Fall of 1983, but graduated in 1984.